A weighted invariant trace formula

Abstract

This paper begins a new approach to the r-trace formula, without removing the nontempered contribution to the spectral side. We first establish an invariant trace formula whose discrete spectral terms are weighted by automorphic L-functions. This involves extending the results of Finis, Lapid, and Müller on the continuity of the coarse expansion of Arthur’s noninvariant trace formula to the refined expansion, and then to the invariant trace formula, while incorporating the use of basic functions at unramified places.