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Equivariant derived category of a reductive group as a categorical center

Representation Theory 2024-06-13 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We prove that the adjoint equivariant derived category of a reductive group GG is equivalent to the appropriately defined monoidal center of the torus-equivariant version of the Hecke category. We use this to give new proofs, independent of sheaf-theoretic set up, of the fact that the Drinfeld center of the abelian Hecke category is equivalent to the abelian category of unipotent character sheaves; and of a characterization of strongly-central sheaves on the torus.

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@article{arxiv.2305.02980,
  title  = {Equivariant derived category of a reductive group as a categorical center},
  author = {Roman Bezrukavnikov and Andrei Ionov and Kostiantyn Tolmachov and Yakov Varshavsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.02980},
  year   = {2024}
}