math.NT — Number Theory
Finite Analytic Characters and Tannakian Source Reconstruction: A Finite Tensor–Quiver Framework for Beyond Endoscopy
This paper organizes finite tensor–quiver reconstruction for reductive source data. For a fixed reductive Zariski-closed subgroup H of a reductive complex group G and a faithful finite-dimensional representation, the standard mixed-tensor reconstruction theorem and Noetherianity imply that finitely many H-invariant tensors have common stabilizer H. Classical quiver invariant theory then implies that finitely many traces of oriented cycles separate closed orbits, including semisimple realizations. For GL₂/ℚ, we give a restricted application of Cheng’s symmetric-square limiting distribution. After a finite-level cuspidal block has been specified and a target constituent selected by an interpolating Hecke test function built from that block’s Hecke characters, ratios of trace-formula distributions recover the first two Satake power sums at auxiliary unramified places, provided Cheng’s hypotheses hold and the full selected coefficient is nonzero. This is post-selection recovery, not a method for identifying the target constituent, and applies only to the nonzero-coefficient visible subset.