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Let E/F be an everywhere unramified extension of number fields with Gal(E/F) simple and nonabelian. In a recent paper, the first named author suggested an approach to nonsolvable base change and descent of automorphic representations of GL2 along such an extension. Motivated by this, we prove a trace formula whose spectral side is a weighted sum over cuspidal automorphic representations of \(\text {GL}_{2}(\mathbb {A}_{E})\) that are isomorphic to their Gal(E/F)-conjugates. The basic method, which is of interest in itself, is to use functions in a space isolated by Finis, Lapid, and Müller to build more variables into the trace formula.
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The authors thank R. Langlands, B. C. Ngô, and P. Sarnak for their generous help and encouragement over the past few years, and E. Lapid for pointing out a mistake in an earlier version of this paper that lead to the simpler approach exposed here. The first author also thanks H. Hahn for her constant encouragement and help with proofreading. Finally, the authors thank the referees for useful comments and corrections which improved the exposition.
The first author is thankful for partial support provided by NSF grant DMS-1405708. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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Getz, J.R., Herman, P.E. A nonabelian trace formula. Mathematical Sciences 2, 14 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40687-015-0025-x
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