Geordie Williamson

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May
5
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May
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accepted Vanishing of !-restriction of constructible sheaves
Apr
30
answered Vanishing of !-restriction of constructible sheaves
Apr
30
comment Algebraic Stratifications of $G$-varieties
yes, this is true and Braden is the perfect person to ask as ulrich says! If all you want is that the categories are preserved by the six operations then this is not difficult to see using equivariant sheaves (see related comments at the beginning of "tilting exercises" by Beilinson, Bezrukavnikov, Mirkovic).
Apr
26
asked Divisibility of all entries in an intersection form
Apr
19
comment Decomposition of C' Kazhdan-Lusztig basis element associated to longest word in S_n
I think that this would be very difficult in general, as it depends on choices of reduced expression. Ben Elias has found a nice answer for dihedral groups in terms of representations of sl_2. However you are asking about $S_n$, so these results probably aren't so useful.
Mar
23
comment is this intersection complex a sheaf?
Another point of view which might be useful: If $X = X_1 \times X_2$ then $IC(L_1 \boxtimes L_2) = IC(L_1) \boxtimes IC(L_2)$ and so one can reduce to the case of a line.
Feb
17
answered Applications for intersection (co)homology and for the Decomposition Theorem for students?
Jan
5
comment small maps, extension of IC sheaves and BM homology
I think it is correct that the total spaces of the two resolutions involved are isomorphic, however as you point out the isomorphism does not commute with the projection to $X$. (In the general case I guess it should be true that all small resolution $X' -> X$ have equal motives over $X'$ (point counts of all fibres agree, total cohomology agrees etc.), however this is still a long way away from being isomorphic as varieties.)
Jan
4
comment small maps, extension of IC sheaves and BM homology
Hello again! With regards to your question 3, the Atiyah flop (see wikipedia) gives two inequivalent resolutions of the singularity $xw = yz$ in $C^4$. (This singularity occurs in a Schubert variety in the Grassmannian of 2-planes in 4 space.)
Jan
3
comment small maps, extension of IC sheaves and BM homology
Hi Dragos, it seems that your definition in the second paragraph is for a semi-small map rather than a small map?
Dec
16
comment Morphisms between Verma modules
Good question! I remember talking to Soergel about this a while ago. If memory serves me right he told me that this is no longer true on partial flag varieties, but unfortunately I can't remember where the first counterexample occurs. Also I have often wondered about torsion in the cohomology of these intersections, but I haven't gotten beyond wondering... (some motivation for why one might care is in the section on R-varieties in arxiv.org/abs/1209.3760).