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Deformations of local systems and Eisenstein series

Algebraic Geometry 2008-02-01 v4 Representation Theory

Abstract

Let XX be a (smooth and complete) curve and GG a reductive group. In [BG] we introduced the object that we called "geometric Eisenstein series". This is a perverse sheaf EisˉE\bar{Eis}_E (or rather a complex of such) on the moduli stack BunG(X)Bun_G(X) of principal GG-bundles on XX, which is attached to a local system EE on XX with respect to the torus Tˇ\check{T}, Langlands dual to the Cartan subgroup TGT\subset G. In loc. cit. we showed thatEisˉE\bar{Eis}_E corresponds to the Gˇ\check{G}-local system induced from EE, in the sense of the geometric Langlands correspondence. In the present paper we address the following question, suggested by V. Drinfeld: what is the perverse sheaf on BunG(X)Bun_G(X) that corresponds to the universal deformation of EE as a local system with respect to the Borel subgroup BˇGˇ\check{B}\subset \check{G}? We prove, following a conjecture of Drinfeld, that the resulting perverse sheaf if the classical, i.e., non-compactified Eisenstein series.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0605139,
  title  = {Deformations of local systems and Eisenstein series},
  author = {A. Braverman and D. Gaitsgory},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0605139},
  year   = {2008}
}
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