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A topological approach to Soergel theory

Representation Theory 2020-02-19 v2

Abstract

We develop a "Soergel theory" for Bruhat-constructible perverse sheaves on the flag variety G/BG/B of a complex reductive group GG, with coefficients in an arbitrary field k\Bbbk. Namely, we describe the endomorphisms of the projective cover of the skyscraper sheaf in terms of a "multiplicative" coinvariant algebra, and then establish an equivalence of categories between projective (or tilting) objects in this category and a certain category of "Soergel modules" over this algebra. We also obtain a description of the derived category of TT-monodromic k\Bbbk-sheaves on G/UG/U (where UU, TBT\subset B are the unipotent radical and the maximal torus), as a monoidal category, in terms of coherent sheaves on the formal neighborhood of the base point in Tk×(Tk)WTkT^\vee_\Bbbk \times_{(T^\vee_\Bbbk)^W} T^\vee_\Bbbk, where TkT^\vee_\Bbbk is the k\Bbbk-torus dual to TT.

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@article{arxiv.1807.07614,
  title  = {A topological approach to Soergel theory},
  author = {Roman Bezrukavnikov and Simon Riche},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.07614},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

v2: minor corrections

R2 v1 2026-06-23T03:07:57.756Z