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    Extensions of tempered representations

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    Let π,π′\pi, \pi' be irreducible tempered representations of an affine Hecke algebra H with positive parameters. We compute the higher extension groups ExtHn(π,π′)Ext_H^n (\pi,\pi') explicitly in terms of the representations of analytic R-groups corresponding to π\pi and π′\pi'. The result has immediate applications to the computation of the Euler-Poincar\'e pairing EP(π,π′)EP(\pi,\pi'), the alternating sum of the dimensions of the Ext-groups. The resulting formula for EP(π,π′)EP(\pi,\pi') is equal to Arthur's formula for the elliptic pairing of tempered characters in the setting of reductive p-adic groups. Our proof applies equally well to affine Hecke algebras and to reductive groups over non-archimedean local fields of arbitrary characteristic. This sheds new light on the formula of Arthur and gives a new proof of Kazhdan's orthogonality conjecture for the Euler-Poincar\'e pairing of admissible characters.Comment: This paper grew out of "A formula of Arthur and affine Hecke algebras" (arXiv:1011.0679). In the second version some minor points were improve
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