Endo-parameters for p-adic classical groups

For a classical group over a non-archimedean local field of odd residual characteristic p,we prove that two cuspidal types, defined over an algebraically closed field C of characteristic prime top, intertwine if and only if they are conjugate. This completes work of the first and third authors who showed that every irreducible cuspidal C-representation of a classical group is compactly induced from a cuspidal type. We generalize Bushnell and Henniart’s notion of endo-equivalence to semisimple characters of general linear groups and to self-dual semisimple charactersof classical groups, and introduce (self-dual) endo-parameters. We prove that these parametrize intertwining classes of (self-dual) semisimple characters and conjecture that they are in bijection with wild Langlands parameters, compatibly with the local Langlands correspondence