Uniform bounds on the Harish-Chandra characters
Let $\mathbf{G}$ be a connected reductive algebraic group over a $p$-adic local field $F$. In this paper we study the asymptotic behaviour of the trace characters $θ_π$ evaluated at a regular element $γ$ of $\mathbf{G}(F)$ as $π$ varies among supercuspidal representations of $\mathbf{G}(F)$. Kim, Shin and Templier conjectured that $\frac{θ_π(γ)}{{\rm deg}(π)}$ tends to $0$ when $π$ runs over irreducible supercuspidal representations of $\textbf{G}(F)$ with unitary central character and the formal degree of $π$ tends to infinity. For $\textbf{G}$ semisimple we prove that the trace character is uniformly bounded on $γ$ under the assumption, which is expected to hold true for every $\textbf{G} (F)$, that all irreducible supercuspidal representations of $\textbf{G}(F)$ are compactly induced from an open compact modulo center subgroup. Moreover, we give an explicit upper bound in the case of $γ$ ellitpic.