La conjecture locale de Gross-Prasad pour les repr\'esentations temp\'er\'ees des groupes sp\'eciaux orthogonaux

Abstract

We prove the local Gross-Prasad conjecture for tempered representations of special orthogonal groups. Roughly speaking, the conjecture says that, if sigma is an irreducible representation of SO(n) and rho is an irreducible representation of SO(n-1), rho appears as quotient of the restriction of sigma to SO(n-1) with a multiplicity m(sigma,rho) that can be computed in terms of epsilon-factors. Our proof uses results of a previous papers which computes m(sigma,rho) and the epsilon-factors by integral formulas.