On the asymptotics of Hecke operators for reductive groups

Abstract: In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of the traces of Hecke operators for spherical discrete automorphic representations of fixed level on general split reductive groups over $\mathbb{Q}$. Under a condition on the analytic behavior of intertwining operators, which is known for the classical groups and the exceptional group $G_2$, we obtain the expected asymptotics in terms of the spherical Plancherel measure and an explicit estimate for the remainder.