The $\rho$-Fourier transform

Let $G$ be a reductive group over a local field $F$ and let $\rho:{}^LG \to \mathrm{GL}_{V_{\rho}}(\mathbb{C})$ be a representation of its $L$-group satisfying suitable assumptions. Braverman, Kazhdan and Ng\^o conjectured that one has a $\rho$-Fourier transform on $L^2(G(F))$ and a $\rho$-Schwartz space $\mathcal{S}_{\rho}(G(F))<L^2(G(F))$ fixed under the Fourier transform that satisfies certain desiderata. We construct the Fourier transform for arbitrary fields. Over non-Archimedean fields we construct the Schwartz space, and in the Archimedean case we construct an approximation to it. This proves a large portion of their conjectures. Our methods are spectral in nature.