A strange bilinear form on the space of automorphic forms

Let F be a function field and G a reductive group over F. We define a bilinear form B on the space of K-finite smooth compactly supported functions on G(A)/G(F). For G = SL(2), the definition of B generalizes to the case where F is a number field (and this is expected to be true for any G). The definition of B relies on the constant term operator and the standard intertwining operator. This form is natural from the viewpoint of the geometric Langlands program via the functions-sheaves dictionary. To see this, we show the relation between B and S. Schieder’s geometric Bernstein asymptotics.