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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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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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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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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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