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Canonical basis in equivariant K-theory of the Springer resolution
In Definition 15.0.2 of the notes from a course by Bezrukavnikov there is a characterization of canonical basis in K-theory of a Springer fiber which is due to Lusztig. This characterization is in ...
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Properties of a functor from Soergel bimodules to Soergel modules
I am looking for an extension of a result of Riche-Soergel about a functor which maps Soergel bimodules to Soergel modules.
Fix a given Coxeter system $(W,S)$, together with a (reflection faithful) ...
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Factoring out an element of a root subgroup to make a conjugation integral
Fix a nonarchimedean local field $L/\mathbb{Q}_p$ with ring of integers $\mathcal{O}$, uniformizer $\varpi$, and residue field $k$. If I take a matrix
$$\begin{pmatrix} a & \varpi b \\ c & d \...
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Relative de Rham cohomology of flag varieties
Let $B \subset P \subset G$ be a parabolic, Borel, and reductive (split) group over the complex numbers. Consider the projection $\pi: G/B \to G/P$, I am interested in computing $R\pi_{*} \Omega^{\...
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Smoothness of some varieties related to the Slodowy slice
Let $G$ be a complex algebraic group with simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g} = \operatorname{Lie} G$. Let $\mathcal{B}$ be the flag variety consisting of all the Borel subalgebras of $\mathfrak{g}$.
Let ...
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Branching rule of $S_n$ and Springer theory
Let $u\in\mathrm{GL}_n$ be a unipotent element, let $\mathcal{B}_u$ be the variety of Borel subgroups containing $u$, and let $d=\dim \mathcal{B}_u$. Then Springer theory tells us that $H^{2d}(\...
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Two versions of parabolic category O
Let $ \mathfrak{g} $ be a semisimple Lie algebra with corresponding complex semisimple group $ G$. Let $ P \subset G $ be a parabolic subgroup. Let $ W^P $ be the set of shortest coset ...
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Lie Algebra representations outside of generalized central characters
For a simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$, we can view its category of representations as fibered over $\operatorname{Spec}Z(\mathfrak{g})$ (a representation will lie over a point if the center's action ...
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What's an example of an $n$-step nilpotent Lie algebra whose centre is not $g^{(n)}$?
Let $\mathfrak g$ be a Lie algebra. $\mathfrak g^{(1)}=\mathfrak g$ and $\mathfrak g^{(n+1)}=[\mathfrak g,\mathfrak g^{(n)}]=\mathbb R$-span$\{[X,Y]:X\in\mathfrak g,Y\in\mathfrak g^{(n)}\}$. The ...
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Locally finite positive energy modules generated by singular vectors at positive levels?
This is question is about whether or not certain modules for an affine Lie algebra are generated by their singular vectors. I begin with some background.
Backround on affine Lie algebras. Let $\...
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Bundles equivariant with respect to a transitive Lie algebra action
Suppose an algebraic group $G$ transitively acts on a variety $X$. Then it is well known that $G$-equivariant vector bundles on $X$ are in correspondence with representations of the stabilizer of a ...
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Understanding the proof of the Springer correspondence
Let $G$ be a connected reductive group over an algebraically closed field $k$ with Weyl group $W$.
Let
$$
\mathcal{S} = R\pi_*\mathbb{Q}_\ell[\dim \mathcal{N}]
$$
be the Springer sheaf, where $\...
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Twisted D-module structure on pushfoward of structure sheaf of Bruhat cell
Apologies for the basic question, but my experience on math.stackexchange tells me that this will go unanswered there.
Background: In the principal block, the dual Verma modules (with highest weight $...
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Exterior products of irreducible representations of sl_2(C)
It is well-known that $\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{C})$ admits exactly one irreducible representation $V_n$ of dimension $n+1$ for all $n\geq 0$. It is explicitly given by the action on homogeneous ...
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Reductive group with simply connected derived group has all root groups $\mathrm{SL}_2$
$\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}\DeclareMathOperator\PGL{PGL}$Motivation: I am trying to understand why the Deligne-Langlands conjectures are only stated for $p$-adic reductive groups with connected ...
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Is the affine closure of the basic affine space of a reductive algebraic group Cohen–Macaulay?
Let $G$ be a reductive algebraic group with choices of Borel subgroup and maximal torus $B \supseteq T$ and unipotent radical $U$ over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic zero. Is the ...
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Is there a derived version of affine Schur-Weyl duality?
One version of affine Schur-Weyl duality states that there is a fully faithful functor from representation of $A_r$ affine Hecke algebra to the representation of $A_n$ affine Lie group assuming $r<...
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Verma modules and Borel–Weil
Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a semisimple Lie algebra and fix a root system. Let $\mathfrak{b}:=\mathfrak{h}\oplus\bigoplus_{\alpha\in R^+}\mathfrak{g}_\alpha$. The complex irreducible representation of $\...
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Dimension of maximal split subtorus and fixed point subspace of Lie algebra
Let $F = \mathbb{C}((t))$. Let $G$ be a complex semisimple algebraic group. Then conjugacy classes of maximal tori in $G(F)$ are in bijection with conjugacy classes in $W$, the Weyl group of $G$ with ...
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The closure of the orbits of $\mathcal{F} \times \mathcal{F}$
Let $V$ be a finite-dimensional vector space over an algebraically closed field $F$, and $\dim V=d$. Let $G=GL(V)$, $P$ is the parabolic subgroup of $G$. Let $\mathcal{F}$ be the set of all partial ...
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Visualizing the affine Bruhat decomposition for $\operatorname{SL}_2$
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Counting points of parabolic Springer fibers
Let $G$ be a reductive group over an (algebraically closed ) field. To each parabolic subgroup $P \subseteq G$ and $x \in G$ we can consider two types of partial Springer fibers associated to it :
$$1)...
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Equivalence of categories of modules over $U(\mathfrak{g})$ on which $Z(\mathfrak{g})$ acts by central characters
$\newcommand{\g}{\mathfrak{g}}$Setting: $\mathfrak{g}$ is a semisimple complex Lie algebra. Here $\chi_\lambda$ denotes the central character corresponding to the action of $Z(\g)$ on a highest weight ...
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Representation viewpoint on Chern–Weil (cohomology computations done with rep theory?)
$\DeclareMathOperator\Sym{Sym}$Let $G$ be a compact lie group. Chern–Weil theory tells us that there's a homomorphism:
$$H^{*}(BG;\mathbb{R}) \to (\Sym^{\bullet} \mathfrak{g^*})^G$$
which in our case ...
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Interesting properties of "coadjoint" orbits inside $V\in \operatorname{Rep}G$
Let $G$ be a reductive group over $\mathbf{C}$. It acts on the dual of its Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}^*$ by conjugation.
One can describe the orbits of $\mathfrak{g}^*$ explicitly (e.g. using Jordan ...
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Your favourite alternative proof of Borel–Weil–Bott
There is a really nice proof of Borel–Weil–Bott, essentially using parabolic induction (see Proof of Borel-Weil-Bott Theorem, Lurie - A proof of the Borel–Weil–Bott theorem or Demazure - A very simple ...
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Two identities involving Ext functors in the context of D-modules
I have several questions regarding proposition 2.3 in "Cherednik and Hecke algebras of varieties with a finite group action", by Pavel Etingof. Let $X$ be a complex affine algebraic variety ...
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comparison of polynomial loop group and smooth loop group
I have a question about Section 8.6 of Pressley-Segal's Loop groups book. Let $G$ be a compact, connected Lie group. Proposition 8.6.6 concerns the comparison of homotopy type between its polynomial ...
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Geometric meaning of inducing a representation from a parabolic subgroup of a Weyl group
What is the geometric meaning of inducing a representation from a parabolic subgroup of a Weyl group? Could Springer theory of Weyl group representations be used to obtain such a geometric meaning?
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Proofs of Beilinson-Bernstein
The Beilinson-Bernstein localization theorem states roughly that the category of $D$-modules on the flag variety $G/B$ is equivalent to the category of modules over the universal enveloping algebra $U\...
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Error in Proposition 8.7.1 of Pressley–Segal
Let $G$ be a connected, compact Lie group, $T$ a maximal torus. Let $LG$ be the group of smooth (or polynomial) loops and $X=LG/T$ the affine flag variety ($T$ acts say by right multiplication). In ...
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Sign error in Chriss-Ginzburg?
On page 118, Theorem 2.7.26 (iii) in Chriss-Ginzburg "Representation Theory and Complex Geometry" there is a formula for the convolution of the classes of conormal bundles of $Y_{12}\subset ...
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Nakajima quiver varieties for ADE quiver with one dimensional framing
Let $Q$ be a quiver of type $ADE$, $I$ is the set of vertices of $Q$. Let $\mathfrak{M}({\mathbf{v}},{\mathbf{w}})$ be a Nakajima quiver variety for such quiver (here ${\mathbf{v}}=(v_i)_{i \in I}$ is ...
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Perverse sheaves and representation theory
At my university we are having a working group on perverse sheaves, with the aim of applying them to representation theory (Lusztig canonical bases for quivers/quantum groups etc). We are still ...
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Reference for combinatorics with view towards representation theory/algebraic geometry
I'm making this post to ask for a reference about combinatorics: I'm a PhD student in representation theory/algebraic geometry. My background is mostly in algebra and geometry (and also mostly ...
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Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials and Intersection Cohomology
I hope this question has not been asked before.
I would like to know which Ideas led (Deligne), Kazhdan and Lusztig believe, that Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials can be expressed via intersection ...
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Intuitive reason that the regular representation is a uniform function
Corollary 12.14 of Digne-Michel's book Representations of finite groups of Lie type gives various decompositions of the regular representation $\operatorname{reg}_G$ in terms of the Deligne-Lusztig ...
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Irreducible real representations of $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})$
I am looking for a classification of irreducible real representations of $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})$ of finite dimension (in the following by "representation" I mean a representation of ...
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Geometric construcion of Proj as a quotient by a $\mathbb{G}_m$ action
I'm trying to translate the Proj construction as a kind of quotient by a $\mathbb{G}_m$ action. Here's what I have so far:
Let $X=Spec\,A$ be an affine scheme (after this case is setteled I imagine it ...
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Irreducible representations of product of profinite groups
It is a standard fact in the representation theory of finite groups that for $G,H$ finite groups, all of the irreducible representations of $G \times H$ are the external tensor product of irreps of $G$...
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Making Virasoro uniformization explicit for elliptic curves
$\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}\DeclareMathOperator\Aut{Aut}\DeclareMathOperator\Lie{Lie}\DeclareMathOperator\Der{Der}\newcommand\el{\mathrm{ell}}$Let $\mathcal{M}_{g,1^{\infty}}$ denote the space ...
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On the order of the head of product of two simple modules over Quiver Hecke Algebras
My question is:
We assume the underlying quiver is a Dynkin quiver. Let $L(\lambda)$ and $L(\mu)$ be two simple modules over Quiver Hecke algebra $R$ where $\lambda$ and $\mu$ are two Konstant ...
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Coincidence of notation in the classification of representations of affine Hecke algebras
This is spurred by a short discussion I had in the comments of this MO question.
In Ginzburg's 1998 paper, https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9802004v3, or equivalently in the book by Chriss and Ginzburg, &...
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Are there cases in which the Weyl group _does_ act on the flag variety/springer fiber?
In nearly every reference on the classical springer correspondence (for example Chriss/Ginzburg's book on Complex Geometry) it is stated that the action of the Weyl Group on the homology of the ...
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Fundamental representation bases and generalized minors
Let $G$ be a simple simpy connected complex algebraic group.
I was wondering if there is a clear relationship between the generalized minors (defined by Berenstein, Fomin and Zelevinsky) and bases of ...
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Borel–Weil–Bott theorem and tensor product
Let $G=\operatorname{SL}(2)$ and $V_n$ be the n+1 dimensional irreducible representation of $G$. This gives a representation for $G(O)=\operatorname{Map}(\operatorname{Spec} k[[t]], G)$ and hence an ($...
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Tensors of minimal rank in Schur modules $S_{\lambda}V \subset V^{\otimes |\lambda|}$
It is well known that for a vector space $V$ with $\dim(V)=n+1$ the $GL(V)-$module $V^{\otimes d}$ splits as a sum of irreducible representations (with suitable multiplicities) $S_{\lambda}V$, where $\...
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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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Conceptual proof of braid group actions on quantum groups
Roughly 1990, Lusztig wrote a series of papers on quantum groups. Perhaps the result that the braid groups acts on $U_q(\mathfrak{g})$ is the proof which is least conceptual.
The original paper ...
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Two different formulations of the Bott–Samelson resolution
There seem to be two formulations of the Bott–Samelson resolution flowing around. For concreteness, let $ G = \mathrm{GL}_{n} ( \mathbb{C} ) $ with the Borel subgroup $ B \subset G $ of upper ...