Regular Bernstein blocks

Abstract

For a connected reductive group $G$ defined over a non-archimedean local field $F$, we consider the Bernstein blocks in the category of smooth representations of $G(F)$. Bernstein blocks whose cuspidal support involves a regular supercuspidal representation are called $\textit{regular}$ Bernstein blocks. Most Bernstein blocks are regular when the residual characteristic of $F$ is not too small. Under mild hypotheses on the residual characteristic, we show that the Bernstein center of a regular Bernstein block of $G(F)$ is isomorphic to the Bernstein center of a regular depth-zero Bernstein block of $G^{0}(F)$, where $G^{0}$ is a certain twisted Levi subgroup of $G$. In some cases, we show that the blocks themselves are equivalent, and as a consequence we prove the ABPS Conjecture in some new cases.