Hermitian Duals and Generic Representations for Affine Hecke Algebras

Abstract We further develop the abstract representation theory of affine Hecke algebras with arbitrary positive parameters. We establish analogues of several results that are known for reductive p -adic groups. These include: the relation between parabolic induction/restriction and Hermitian duals, Bernstein’s second adjointness and generalizations of the Langlands classification. We check that, in the known cases of equivalences between module categories of affine Hecke algebras and Bernstein blocks for reductive p -adic groups, such equivalences preserve Hermitian duality. We also initiate the study of generic representations of affine Hecke algebras. Based on an analysis of the Hecke algebras associated to generic Bernstein blocks for quasi-split reductive p -adic groups, we propose a fitting definition of genericity for modules over affine Hecke algebras. With that notion we prove special cases of the generalized injectivity conjecture, about generic subquotients of standard modules for affine Hecke algebras.