The character correspondence in the stable range over a p-adic field

Abstract

Given a real irreducible dual pair there is an integral kernel operator which maps the distribution character of an irreducible admissible representation of the group with the smaller or equal rank to an invariant eigendistribution on the group with the larger or equal rank. If the pair is in the stable range and if the representation is unitary, then the resulting distribution is the character of the representation obtained via Howe's correspondence. This construction was transferred to the p-adic case and a conjecture was formulated. In this note we verify a weaker version of this conjecture for dual pairs in the stable range over a p-adic field.