Towards the depth zero stable Bernstein center conjecture

Abstract

Let $G$ be a split connected reductive group over a non-archimedan local field $F$. The depth zero stable Bernstein conjecture asserts that there is an algebra isomorphism between the depth zero stable Bernstein center of $G(F)$ and the ring of functions on the moduli of tame Langlands parameters. An approach to the depth zero stable Bernstein conjecture was proposed in the work of Bezrukavnikov-Kazhdan-Varshavsky \cite{BKV}. In this paper we generalize results and techniques in \cite{BKV} and apply them to give a geometric construction of elements in the depth zero Bernstein center. We conjecture that our construction produces all elements in the depth zero Bernstein center. An an illustration of the method, we give a construction of an algebra embedding from the (limit of) stable Bernstein centers for finite reductive groups to the depth zero Bernstein center and a family of elements in the depth zero Bernstein center coming from Deligne's epsilon factors. The paper is the first step toward the depth zero stable Bernstein center.