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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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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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Equivalence between $\mathcal{D}_\lambda$ modules and $\mathcal{D}_{0}$ modules

Fix $G$ a finite dimensional reductive group and $\lambda$ a weight. Apparently the category of $\mathcal{D}_\lambda$ modules on $G/B$ is equivalent to the category of $\mathcal{D}_0$ modules on $G'/B'...
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Definition of nearby cycle over an affine line

In some famous papers like Gaitsgory's "Construction of central elements in the affine Hecke algebra via nearby cycles" and Beilinson-Bernstein's "A proof of Jantzen conjectures", ...
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