On the unramified spherical automorphic spectrum

Abstract

For an unramified connected reductive group $G$ defined over a number field $F$, consider the part of the spherical automorphic spectrum with cuspidal support $[T,\mathcal{O}(\chi)]$, where $T$ is a maximal torus and $\chi$ is an unramified automorphic character. We define a normalization of the Eisenstein series and we give the precise spectral decomposition of the closure of the subspace spanned by the normalized pseudo-Eiseinstein series. The proof uses residue distributions which were introduced by the third author (in joint work with G. Heckman) in the study of graded affine Hecke algebras, which is an ingredient of a purely local nature. In the case when $G$ is split and $\chi$ is the trivial character, we show that the normalized spectrum is in fact the whole spherical automorphic spectrum. The necessary argument to conclude the result in the split case are based on combinatorial results proved in [DMHO].