On distinguished square-integrable representations for Galois pairs and a conjecture of Prasad

We prove an integral formula computing multiplicities of square-integrable representations relative to Galois pairs over $p$-adic fields and we apply this formula to verify two consequences of a conjecture of Dipendra Prasad. One concerns the exact computation of the multiplicity of the Steinberg representation and the other the invariance of multiplicities by transfer among inner forms.