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Proposition 1.6 · Forcing criteria: vanishing eigenfunctions, multiplicity two, extra endomorphisms
proved audit: correct ★ key step
(SG) fails as soon as a nonzero \(K\)-invariant Hecke eigenfunctional on \(C_K\) vanishes at \(\varphi_0\) — in particular when some unramified \(\pi\) has multiplicity at least 2, or \(C_K\) has an \(\mathcal H_K\)-endomorphism not given by \(\mathcal H_K\); if \(C_K\) is finitely generated the first condition is also necessary. These are the converse halves of Sakellaridis's Cor. 8.0.4, valid over \(\mathbb F_q(\!(t)\!)\) without (A1)–(A5).
Proposition 1.6.
Let \(X=G/H\) be homogeneous spherical over a non-archimedean local field \(F\) (for instance \(\mathbb F_q(\!(t)\!)\)), with \(K\), \(\mathcal H_K\), \(C_K\), \(\varphi_0\) as in the setting.
(S) If \(\Lambda:C_K\to\mathbb C\) is nonzero, \(\Lambda(f\ast\varphi)=\chi(f)\Lambda(\varphi)\) for a character \(\chi\) of \(\mathcal H_K\), and \(\Lambda(\varphi_0)=0\), then (SG) fails. Conversely, if \(C_K\) is a finitely generated \(\mathcal H_K\)-module and (SG) fails, such \(\Lambda\) exists. (With \(\Omega(x)=\Lambda(\mathbf 1_{Kx})\): a Hecke eigenfunction on \(K\backslash X(F)\) with \(\sum_{Kx\subseteq X(\mathcal O)}\Omega(x)=0\).)
(d) If (SG) holds, then \(\dim\operatorname{Hom}_{\mathcal H_K}(C_K,\chi)\le1\) for every \(\chi\); for every irreducible unramified \(\pi\), \(\dim\operatorname{Hom}_G(\mathcal S(X(F)),\pi)\le1\), and, if \(X(F)\) carries a \(G(F)\)-invariant measure, \(\dim\operatorname{Hom}_G(\pi,C^\infty(X(F)))\le1\) and every nonzero \(K\)-invariant eigenfunction \(\Omega\) has \(\int_{X(\mathcal O)}\Omega\neq0\).
(b) If (SG) holds, \(\operatorname{End}_{\mathcal H_K}(C_K)\) is the image of \(\mathcal H_K\), a commutative ring; so an \(\mathcal H_K\)-linear automorphism of \(C_K\) fixing \(\varphi_0\) and different from the identity forces failure. Sheaf-level source (under (R), (C), D0–D3): a Frobenius-compatible \(\mathcal H\)-linear t-exact autoequivalence \(\sigma\) of \(\mathcal C_k\) with \(\sigma(\mathrm{IC}_0,\mathrm{can})\cong(\mathrm{IC}_0,\mathrm{can})\) and \(\sigma(\mathrm{IC}_\nu)\cong\mathrm{IC}_{s(\nu)}\), \(s(\nu)\neq\nu\) for some \(\nu\), makes the rows \(\nu\) and \(s(\nu)\) of \(M\) proportional by a unit of \(R\), and \((\mathrm{SG})_n\) fails for every \(n\).
(c) \((\mathrm{SG})_n\) fails iff there is \(c\in\prod_{\nu\in\Lambda_S^+}\overline{\mathbb Q}_\ell\), \(c\neq0\), with \(\sum_\nu c_\nu m^{(n)}_{\nu\lambda}=0\) for all \(\lambda\) — a relation that may involve infinitely many rows. In particular, if for a finite set \(N\) of labels all columns restricted to \(N\) lie in one proper subspace of \(\overline{\mathbb Q}_\ell^N\), then \((\mathrm{SG})_n\) fails.
Proofs.
- (S), first half. \(\Lambda(f\ast\varphi_0)=\chi(f)\Lambda(\varphi_0)=0\) for all \(f\), so \(\Lambda\) vanishes on \(\mathcal H_K\ast\varphi_0\) but not on \(C_K\).
- (S), converse. \(\mathcal H_K\) is a finitely generated commutative \(\mathbb C\)-algebra (Satake), hence Noetherian. If \(Q=C_K/\mathcal H_K\ast\varphi_0\neq0\) is finitely generated, pick a maximal ideal \(\mathfrak m\) with \(Q_{\mathfrak m}\neq0\); by Nakayama \(Q/\mathfrak mQ=Q_{\mathfrak m}/\mathfrak mQ_{\mathfrak m}\neq0\), and \(\mathcal H_K/\mathfrak m=\mathbb C\) (Nullstellensatz). A nonzero linear form on \(Q/\mathfrak mQ\) composed with \(C_K\to Q\) is the required \(\Lambda\), with \(\chi=\chi_{\mathfrak m}\).
- (d). Under (SG), \(\Lambda\mapsto\Lambda(\varphi_0)\) is injective on \(\operatorname{Hom}_{\mathcal H_K}(C_K,\chi)\), so the dimension is at most 1. For \(\pi\) irreducible unramified with \(\pi^K=\mathbb Cv_0\) and character \(\chi_\pi\): restriction \(\ell\mapsto\ell|_{C_K}\) embeds \(\operatorname{Hom}_G(\mathcal S(X(F)),\pi)\) into \(\operatorname{Hom}_{\mathcal H_K}(C_K,\pi^K)\), because \(\ell(C_K)=\ell(e_K\mathcal S)=e_K\ell(\mathcal S)=\pi^K\neq0\) when \(\ell\neq0\) (\(e_K\) the projector to \(K\)-invariants; \(\ell(\mathcal S)=\pi\) by irreducibility). For \(A\in\operatorname{Hom}_G(\pi,C^\infty(X(F)))\), \(\Omega=A(v_0)\) determines \(A\), is \(K\)-invariant and satisfies \(f\ast\Omega=\chi_\pi(f)\Omega\); with an invariant measure, \(\Lambda_\Omega(\varphi)=\int_X\varphi\,\Omega\) satisfies \(\Lambda_\Omega(f\ast\varphi)=\Lambda_{f^\vee\ast\Omega}(\varphi)=\chi_\pi(f^\vee)\Lambda_\Omega(\varphi)\) (\(f^\vee(g)=f(g^{-1})\); change of variables), and \(\Omega\mapsto\Lambda_\Omega\) is injective (test on orbit indicators). Hence the bound, and \(\Lambda_\Omega(\varphi_0)=\int_{X(\mathcal O)}\Omega\neq0\) by (S).
- (b). If \(C_K=\mathcal H_K\ast\varphi_0\cong\mathcal H_K/\mathrm{Ann}(\varphi_0)\), an \(\mathcal H_K\)-endomorphism \(D\) is determined by \(D(\varphi_0)=f_D\ast\varphi_0\), and \(D=f_D\ast-\). For the sheaf-level source: \(\sigma(V_\lambda\ast\mathrm{IC}_0)\cong V_\lambda\ast\sigma(\mathrm{IC}_0)\cong V_\lambda\ast\mathrm{IC}_0\) as Weil objects, and \(\sigma\) maps \({}^p\mathcal H^i\) to \({}^p\mathcal H^i\) and the \(\mathrm{IC}_\nu\)-isotypic part to the \(\mathrm{IC}_{s(\nu)}\)-isotypic part. If \(\sigma\) carries the canonical structure of \(\mathrm{IC}_\nu\) to \(c_\nu\) times that of \(\mathrm{IC}_{s(\nu)}\), then \([E_{s(\nu),i}(\lambda)]=[c_\nu][E_{\nu,i}(\lambda)]\) in \(R\), so \(M_{s(\nu),\lambda}=[c_\nu]M_{\nu,\lambda}\) for all \(\lambda\), and the functional \(e^*_{s(\nu)}-c_\nu^ne^*_\nu\) kills every column of \(m^{(n)}\). Its trace on \(C_{K_n}\) is an \(\mathcal H_{K_n}\)-automorphism fixing \(\varphi_0\) and moving \(\mathrm{tr}_n\mathrm{IC}_\nu\).
- (c). The algebraic dual of \(\bigoplus_\nu\overline{\mathbb Q}_\ell\) is \(\prod_\nu\overline{\mathbb Q}_\ell\); the columns fail to span iff some nonzero functional kills them all. Each column has finite support, so each sum is finite. The finite-block version: extend by zero a nonzero \(c\in W^\perp\subset(\overline{\mathbb Q}_\ell^N)^*\).
- Examples. In Counterexample 1.5 the eigenspaces are 2-dimensional, \(\delta_j\mapsto(-1)^j\delta_j\) is a nontrivial \(\mathcal H_K\)-automorphism fixing \(\varphi_0\), and \(c=\mathbf 1_{\text{odd}}\) is an infinite row relation. For \(\mathrm{SL}_2/T\) outside (C), Proposition J(2) of the classical page is the automorphism \(\sigma\) of (b), induced by \(\mathrm{diag}(u,1)\) with \(u\) a non-square unit.
- Relation to Sakellaridis. His Cor. 8.0.4 (char 0, under (A1)–(A5)) derives principal generation, multiplicity one and good test vectors from surjectivity of \(r\), and his remark after it notes multiplicity \(>1\) at glued points; his Cor. 8.0.3 identifies the geometric endomorphisms with \(\mathbb C[\delta(X)^{1/2}A_X^*]^{W_X}\), larger than the image of \(\mathcal H_K\) when \(r\) is not onto. Here the implications from (SG) to multiplicity one and good test vectors are proved for every \(X\) and every \(F\), with no hypothesis. \(\square\)
Builds on
- Theorem 1.2 · Theorem A: decategorification is base change of one \(R\)-matrix
- Counterexample 1.5 · Counterexample outside (R): the norm torus quotient, and the torus criterion
Built on by
- Lemma 1.7 · Close-field transfer: witnesses of (SG) persist over highly ramified \(p\)-adic fields
- Proposition 1.8 · Under (R), (C), D0–D3: three mechanisms vanish; the obligation sits on uncovered labels
- Summary 1.12 · Verdict on part (2), with consequences for (1) and (3)
- Audit 4.16 · Audit: vanishing eigenfunctionals, multiplicity one, extra endomorphisms, row relations
- Theorem 6.3 · Verdict: sheaf generation over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_q\) does not imply spherical generation over \(\mathbb F_q(\!(t)\!)\)
Sources
- sakellaridis-v3.pdf, Thm 8.0.2, Cor. 8.0.3, Cor. 8.0.4 and the remark after it (sak.txt near line 3880)
- classical.html (Proposition B, Proposition J(2))
- trace-b.html (IIb (iii))