Questions tagged [geometric-langlands]
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Double affine Hecke algebras and mainstream mathematics
This is something of a followup to the question "Kapranov's analogies", where a connection between Cherednik's double affine Hecke algebras (DAHA's) and Geometric Langlands program was mentioned.
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Consequences of Geometric Langlands
So, lots of people work on the Geometric Langlands Conjecture, and there have been a few questions around here on it (admittedly, several of them mine). So here's another one, tagged community wiki ...
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Number theory and physics
I was following some lectures by Edward Frenkel about Langlands correspondence. He was describing some analogies between number theory and theoretical physics (Mirror symmetry). At some point ( my ...
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Current Status on Langlands Program
The Langlands Program was launched almost fifty years ago, and progress has been made gradually, much of it hard earned. Langlands himself wrote a survey on the functoriality conjecture in 1997, Where ...
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Topological Langlands?
In a workshop about the geometry of $\mathbb{F}_1$ I attended recently, it came up a question related to a mysterious but "not-so-secret-anymore" seminar about... an hypothetical Topological Langlands ...
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What do Hecke eigensheaves actually look like?
Let $\mathbb F_q$ be a finite field, $C$ a curve over $\mathbb F_q$ of genus $g\geq 2$, $\rho: \pi_1(C) \to GL_2(\overline{\mathbb Q}_\ell)$ an irreducible local system. The geometric Langlands ...
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A good example of a curve for geometric Langlands
I'm currently working through Frenkel's beautiful paper:
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/0512/0512172v1.pdf.
I'm looking for a good example of a projective curve to get my hands dirty, and go ...
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LMS Lectures on Geometric Langlands
Everybody knows how insightful are David Ben-Zvi talks (and comments/answers here on mathoverflow). I was trying to watch the LMS 2007 Lecture Series on Geometric Langlands by David, supposedly made ...
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Number Theory and Gravity
Langlands program is a web of far-reaching and influential conjectures about connections between number theory and geometry. Proposed by Robert Langlands at IAS (1967, 1970), it seeks to relate Galois ...
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Langlands Dual Groups
Can someone explain, explicitly, how to, given a reductive complex algebraic group construct the Langlands dual group? I know it is a group with the cocharacters of G as its characters, but how does ...
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References for Langlands classification
I kindly ask about some references concerning the representation theory of the Langlands dual of a compact Lie group, and how it relates to things related to the original compact Lie group.
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What is an Oper?
Given a curve C, and a reductive group G, there is a moduli stack Loc_G(C), the stack of G-local systems. I keep reading that there's a substack of "opers" but am having trouble locating a definition....
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Vector bundles, Higgs bundles and the Langlands program
This question is somewhat vaguely structured. But, I hope someone can make it more precise (or) it is indeed possible to answer it in the form that I am stating it.
Background : I recently chanced ...
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Relationship between the TQFTs in Kapustin-Witten and Ben-Zvi-Sakellaridis-Venkatesh
In upcoming work of Ben-Zvi-Sakellaridis-Venkatesh, (see for instance these notes or this lecture) some important aspects of the Langlands correspondence are stated in the language of topological ...
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What is the relation between L. Lafforgue and Frenkel-Gaitsgory-Vilonen results on Langlands correspondence ?
What is the relation between Lafforgue's result on Langlands
and Frenkel-Gaitsgory-Vilonen ? ( http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0012255 , http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0204081 )
Does one imply other ? If not ...
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Beilinson-Drinfeld local geometric class field theory
There is the following version of categorical local geometric class field theory:
Let $\mathbb{D}=\operatorname{Spec} \mathbb{C}((t))$, $L\mathbb{G}_m$: the loop group of $\mathbb{G}_m$ over $\mathbb{...
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What is Eisenstein series?
There are several related questions here, the latter being especially interesting. We know the classical Eisenstein series.
What are the Eisenstein series on a group G and why they are interesting?
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Langlands duality and multiplying cocharacters
Recall that there is a bijection between irreducible representations of a compact real Lie group $G$ and the cocharacters (homomorphisms $U(1) \to G$, modulo conjugation)
of the Langlands dual group $^...
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ubiquitous quantum cohomology
Manin stressed that every projective scheme should have a quantum-cohomology structure. I'd like to know more about that. And since the varieties considered in texts about monodromy resp. vanishing ...
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Geometric Langlands: From D-mod to Fukaya
This post is rather wordy and speculative, but I promise there is a concrete question embedded within. For experts, I'll open with a question:
Question: Given a compact Riemann surface $X$, why ...
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Any progress on Strominger-Yau and Zaslow conjecture?
In 2002 Hausel - Thaddeus interpreted SYZ conjecture in the context of Hitchin system and Langlands duality. Let briefly explain it
Let $\pi : E \to Σ$ a complex vector bundle of rank $r$ and ...
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Examples of Eigensheaves outside of langlands
In geometric Langlands, one looks at correspondences of the form
$$ Bun_n(X) \leftarrow Hecke \rightarrow X\times Bun_n(X)$$
and calls a sheaf on the lefthand space Hecke eigensheaf, if pulling ...
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The affine Grassmannian and the Bogomolny equations
In "Electric-Magnetic Duality and The Geometric Langlands Program", Sections 9 and 10, Kapustin and Witten describe certain convolution varieties in the affine Grassmannian (and more ...
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Relation between motives and geometric Langlands
When working over a number field (or a function field over a finite field), one predicts that the Langlands program is related to the theory of motives over this field. There are several ways I have ...
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Roadmap to geometric Langlands for a mathematical physics student
I am a student of both mathematics and physics, who has recently been studying string theory. My mathematics background is mostly differential geometry (principal bundles, Lie groups, etc.), although ...
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Geometric Satake and Restriction
The Geometric Satake correspondence (due to Lusztig, Ginzburg, Mirkovic-Vilonen) relates perverse sheaves on the Loop Group $\hat{G}$ (with their convolution product) to the Representations of the ...
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Meaning of topological tensor products in Frenkel-Gaitsgory
The appendix to http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508382 by Frenkel & Gaitsgory (following an earlier work of Beilinson) describes three different monoidal structures, denoted by $\otimes^!,\otimes^*,$ ...
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On Geometric Langlands Correspondence
The Geometric Langlands correspondence introduced by Drinfeld and Laumon conjectures a 1 to 1 correspondence between
(A) local systems on a projective smooth curve over a field
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Why is the simple trace formula a weaker tool than the Arthur trace formula?
What are some concrete examples of theorems which can be deduced from the Arthur trace formula, which do not follow from the simple trace of Kazdhan and Flicker?
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Explanation for Satake correspondence
Some time ago I was told there's an interesting classical Satake correspondence which I will write as
$$[\mathop{\mathrm{disk}} \Rightarrow G] \,\backslash\, [\mathop{\mathrm{disk}^\times} \...
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Langlands dual group in math vs. Goddard-Nyuts-Olive dual group in physics
Given a group $G$, there is a so-called Langlands dual group $G^{∨}$.
Given a group $G$, there is also a so-called Goddard-Nyuts-Olive dual group $G^{'}$ that relates to the magnetic charge.
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Dual Coxeter numbers, Langlands dual groups, black holes and twisted compactification of 6d (2,0) A D E theories on a circle
A 6-dimensional (2,0) superconformal quantum field theory comes in Lie algebra A, D, E types. These theories do not have classical Lagrangian and are purely quantum.These theories on a torus ...
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A question on group action on categories
Let $Gr$ be the affine Grassmannian of $G=G((t))/G[[t]]$, and let $Perv(Gr)$ be the category of perverse sheaves on $Gr$. We have action of $G((t))$ on the left-hand side of $Perv(Gr)$, also we have ...
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Why is the Arthur trace formula so powerful?
Considering the Arthur trace formula, why are the sort of convolution operators, whose "normalized traces" are given in geometric terms and spectral terms, actually able to distinguish all ...
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Beilinson-Drinfeld quantization and stable bundles
To motivate this question, I'm going to try and explain some background notions. This won't be absolutely necessary for experts, but I want to be vaguely honest about where this question comes from. ...
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Representation theory of Chevalley groups as a categorical trace
Dennis Gaitsgory's 2016 preprint, From Geometric to Function-Theoretic Langlands (or How to Invent Shtukas) includes in the third section a very compressed but suggestive discussion of the ...
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On a remark of Langlands
I'm been wondering about this for a while and hope someone can enlighten me.
In this interview of Robert Langlands's from 2010, on pg 21 (Question 8) he states "At one point, when fairly young, I ...
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Analog of Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture in Geometric Langlands
The Ramanujan conjecture asserts that
\begin{align}
|\tau(p)|\leq 2p^{11/2}
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where $\tau(p)$ is the $p^{th}$ Fourier coeffecient in the q-expansion of the weight 12 cusp form $\Delta(z)$. ...
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What are local spaces and what are they good for?
Factorization structures have been popular in the past decade. Recently a variant of this structure has been suggested by Ivan Mirkovic (and possibly collaborators). This variant, which goes under the ...
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Examples of function fields Langlands for small genus (<= 2)
See Edward Frenkel's article "Lectures on the Langlands program and conformal field theory" for an exposition of the function fields Langlands correspondence (now a theorem of Drinfel'd, L.Lafforgue &...
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Implications of gauge symmetry breaking on the spectral side of geometric Langlands?
Let $G$ be a complex reductive algebraic group and $X$ be a smooth compact complex curve. It's easy to see that the space of vacua in B-twisted $N=4$ SUSY Yang--Mills theory is $\mathfrak{h}^*[2]/W$ (...
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Kapustin-Witten branes and the derived moduli stack of Higgs bundles
A lot has been discussed on overflow regarding geometric Langlands and the physics of Kapustin and Witten's groundbreaking paper https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0604151. I would like to add my two cents ...
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Remark 12.8.8 in Arinkin--Gaitsgory
I can not understand Remark 12.8.8 in the preprint "SINGULAR SUPPORT OF COHERENT SHEAVES AND THE GEOMETRIC LANGLANDS CONJECTURE". I am somewhat embarrased by the degree of my confusion, hopefully ...
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Homological contractibility of a prestack
This question is in reference to Gaitsgory's preprint Contractibility of the space of rational maps. On p. 5 of the preprint, Gaitsgory defines a prestack $\mathscr{Y}$ (say over affine $\mathbb{C}$-...
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Is this construction related to the geometric Langlands program perhaps?
Given a complex Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$, a choice of Cartan subalgebra $\mathfrak{h}$ of $\mathfrak{g}$ and a dominant integral weight $\lambda$ of $\mathfrak{g}$, there is a natural construction ...
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Ramified Geometric Langlands
Is the following a reasonable formulation of (a part of) the geometric Langlands conjecture for $\mathrm{GL}_n$ over a curve $X$?
(*) Let $\mathcal{L}$ be an irreducible rank $n$ $\ell$-adic local ...
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The De Rham Stack and $\text{LocSys}$
Q1: Here, on pg $103$, the stack $\text{LocSys}_G(X)$ is defined (for an affine algebraic group $G$, a fixed DG scheme $X$, and a test scheme $S \in \textbf{DGSch}$):
$Maps(S, LocSys_G(X)) := \text{...
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Statement of local geometric Langlands
A precise statement of the global geometric Langlands conjecture is well-known.
However, I am unable to find a statement of the local Langlands conjecture. Does anyone have a modern statement or a ...
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Arthur's refinement of parameters for unitary automorphic representations
In his work on the classification of automorphic representations of a group $G$, Arthur has conjectured that the parameterization of such representations involves a homomorphism $\rho : SL_2 \times ...
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Sheaves on Bun_G
What's the background I need to know to understand the conjectural
D (Bun_G) =?= O(LocSys)
from this question. I know the LHS is about the derived category of ...
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