\documentclass[11pt]{article} \input{preamble} \hypersetup{ pdftitle={\seriestitle, II: The geometric construction}, pdfauthor={Boyang Hu} } \title{\seriestitle\\[6pt]\Large II. The geometric construction} \author{Boyang Hu\\[3pt] {\normalsize Tsinghua University}} \date{12 November 2026} \begin{document} \InputIfFileExists{ext-I}{}{} \InputIfFileExists{ext-III}{}{} \maketitle \begin{abstract} Let \(G\) be a split simply connected semisimple group over a global function field \(F\) whose characteristic does not divide the order of the Weyl group of \(G\). We prove that every semisimple elliptic Langlands parameter \(\Gamma_F\to\widehat G(\overline{\mathbb Q}_\ell)\) is the parameter of a cusp form on \(G\), in the sense of V.~Lafforgue's excursion operators; we call such a form an automorphic realization of the parameter. The parameter may be ramified at finitely many places and may have finite monodromy, and neither \(F\) nor its field of constants is extended. The starting point is the geometric Langlands correspondence in characteristic zero. It provides a sheaf, and the function which the trace of Frobenius attaches to a nonzero sheaf can vanish identically. The main point of the construction is to arrange that the trace in question is a determinant \(\det(1-\phi)\) with no zero factor, and that it stays nonzero under specialization to the given field. This is the second of three papers. Together with the first, which contains the arithmetic foundations, and the third, which treats classical groups in every characteristic, it gives automorphic realizations of semisimple parameters on all split reductive groups, with a restriction on the characteristic for the exceptional types only. \end{abstract} {\small\noindent\textbf{2020 Mathematics Subject Classification.} 11R39, 14D24 (primary); 11F70, 14F20, 22E57 (secondary). \noindent\textbf{Keywords.} Langlands parameters, function fields, geometric Langlands correspondence, Hecke eigensheaves, excursion operators, nearby cycles.\par} \tableofcontents \bigskip \input{sections/intro} \input{sections/overview} \input{sections/inputs} \input{sections/normalizations} \input{sections/geometry-guide} \input{sections/geom-coefficients} \input{sections/example-coefficient} \input{sections/geom-curves} \input{sections/example-curves} \input{sections/geom-extension} \input{sections/geom-phases} \input{sections/geom-traces} \input{sections/geom-excursions} \input{sections/geom-realization} \appendix \input{sections/appendix-computer} \section*{Notation} \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Notation} \markboth{Notation}{} \input{sections/notation-index} \input{sections/ai-statement} \input{bibliography} \end{document}