# What is the Plancherel Measure for $\textrm{SL}_3(\mathbb{Q}_p)$?

I am looking for a description of the Plancherel Measure of $\textrm{SL}_3(\mathbb{Q}_p)$. Has this been calculated yet? I've search many places for it, but I've only found results on real/complex special linear groups and on $p$-adic general linear groups. Any help would be appreciated.

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What do you need it for? Are you interested in it for its own sake? Do you know the Plancherel measure for $SL(2)$ or $GL(2)$? A wild guess is that beautiful formulas are only available for Hecke algebras associated to distinguished strata and that in principle there is an algorithm because the characters and representations of SL(N) have been classified. –  Marc Palm Nov 6 '12 at 13:05
Also see Paul Garrett's answer here: mathoverflow.net/questions/70801/… –  Marc Palm Nov 6 '12 at 13:06
In short, even Paul Garrett has no reference for the Plancherel of GL(n), which is easier than SL(n). –  Marc Palm Nov 6 '12 at 13:10
I'm studying the local parameters of $\textrm{SL}_3(\mathbb{Z})$-automorphic Hecke eigenfunctions. We already have a measure $\mu_T$ satisfying $lim_{T \to \infty} \int_{\textrm{SL}_3(\mathbb{Q}_p)-\textrm{spectrum}} \chi_\rho(\pi) d \mu_T(\pi) = \alpha_p(\rho)$ and I'm looking for the limiting measure $\lim_{T \to \infty} \mu_T$. A natural candidate is the Plancherel measure. –  anstei Nov 6 '12 at 15:25
What is a $SL_3(\mathbb{Z})$-automorphic Hecke eigenfunction? You do not mean a $SL_3(\mathbb{Z}_p)$-biinvariant function, because then everything is fairly easy and I can give the answer. –  Marc Palm Nov 6 '12 at 15:35

Bushnell, Colin J.; Henniart, Guy; Kutzko, Philip C. Types and explicit Plancherel formulæ for reductive $p$-adic groups. On certain $L$-functions, 55–80, Clay Math. Proc., 13, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2011.
In the following paper, Bushnell and Kutzko show that for certain blocks of ${\rm SL}(N)$the Hecke algebra is isomorphic to a Iwahori Hecke algebra for some ${\rm SL}(N')$ over another field.
Bushnell, Colin J.; Kutzko, Philip C. The admissible dual of ${\rm SL}(N)$. I. Ann. Sci. École Norm. Sup. (4) 26 (1993), no. 2, 261–280.