“…In [41], Kazhdan These results suggest that, if one understands the representation theory of Gal(F/F) for all local fields F of characteristic 0, then one can use it to understand the representation theory of Gal(F /F ) for a local field F of characteristic p, and similarly, with an understanding of the representation theory of G(F) for all local fields F of characteristic 0, one can study the representation theory of G(F ), for F of characteristic p. Such applications of this philosophy can be found in [8,9,29,49]. For the rest of the introduction, H will denote one of the split classical groups Sp 2n , SO 2n+1 , or SO 2n and N will denote the rank of the group Langlands dual to H. These groups can be realized as endoscopic groups of GL N , where GL N is the twisted space of GL N with respect to a nontrivial outer automorphism θ .…”