ON THE LOCAL LANGLANDS CORRESPONDENCE FOR SPLIT CLASSICAL GROUPS OVER LOCAL FUNCTION FIELDS

We prove certain depth bounds for Arthur's endoscopic transfer of representations from classical groups to the corresponding general linear groups over local fields of characteristic 0, with some restrictions on the residue characteristic. We then use these results and the method of Deligne and Kazhdan of studying representation theory over close local fields to obtain, under some restrictions on the characteristic, the local Langlands correspondence for split classical groups over local function fields from the corresponding result of Arthur in characteristic 0.