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Smooth unipotent algebraic groups over $\mathbb A^n$
Let $G\to \mathbb A^n_{\mathbb C}$ be a smooth morphism whose fibers at any point of $\mathbb A^n$ are unipotent groups. Can we conclude that $G\simeq \mathbb A^{n+N}_{\mathbb C}$ for some $N$, as a ...
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In which sense affine Grassmannian is "affine"
A pretty naïve question: Which meaning has the term "affine" in the notion of affine Grassmanian. Especially, I do not see any immediate connection to the concept of an "affine scheme&...
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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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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 ...