THE GLOBAL GAN-GROSS-PRASAD CONJECTURE FOR UNITARY GROUPS: THE ENDOSCOPIC CASE

In this paper, we prove the Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture and the Ichino-Ikeda conjecture for unitary groups U-n x Un+1 in all the endoscopic cases. Our main technical innovation is the computation of the contributions of certain cuspidal data, called *-regular, to the Jacquet-Rallis trace formula for linear groups. We offer two different computations of these contributions: one, based on truncation, is expressed in terms of regularized Rankin-Selberg periods of Eisenstein series and Flicker-Rallis intertwining periods introduced by Jacquet-Lapid-Rogawski. The other, built upon Zeta integrals, is expressed in terms of functionais on the Whittaker model. A direct proof of the equality between the two expressions is also given. Finally several useful auxiliary results about the spectral expansion of the Jacquet-Rallis trace formula are provided.