For split GG with maximal torus TT, its root datum is (X(T),Φ,X(T),Φ)(X^*(T),\Phi,X_*(T),\Phi^\vee), where X(T):=Homk(Gm,T)X_*(T):=\mathrm{Hom}_k(\mathbb{G}_m,T) and Φ\Phi^\vee are coroots.

The dual root datum is (X(T),Φ,X(T),Φ)(X_*(T),\Phi^\vee,X^*(T),\Phi).

The Langlands dual group G^\widehat G is the connected complex reductive group with this dual root datum (the letter writes G^\widehat G as "cGcG", and uses cLcL for dual lattices).

Remarks

Key property (for Satake):

  • Unramified Hecke eigencharacters correspond to semisimple conjugacy classes in G^\widehat G (more precisely in the ).
Examples
  • GLn^=GLn(C)\widehat{\mathrm{GL}_n}=\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{C}), and SLn^=PGLn(C)\widehat{\mathrm{SL}_n}=\mathrm{PGL}_n(\mathbb{C}).