Transfer Principle for the Fundamental Lemma

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explain how the identities of various fundamental lemmas fall within the scope of the transfer principle, a general result that allows to transfer theorems about identities of p-adic integrals from one collection of fields to others. In particular, once the fundamental lemma has been established for one collection of fields (for example, fields of positive characteristic), it is also valid for others (fields of characteristic zero).