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Exponential motives on the affine Grassmannian

Algebraic Geometry 2026-03-25 v1 Number Theory Representation Theory

Abstract

We develop a notion of exponential motives on general prestacks equipped with a Ga\mathbf{G}_a-action, and compare them with Whittaker motives via Gaitsgory's Kirillov model. We then establish foundational results for exponential motives on affine flag varieties concerning Tate motives and t-structures. We use this to prove a motivic Casselman-Shalika equivalence, relating exponential Tate motives on the affine Grassmannian to ind-coherent sheaves on the classifying stack of the Langlands dual group. The decategorification of this equivalence provides a new construction of the Whittaker module for the spherical Hecke algebra which works for arbitrary coefficients, including a generic version.

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@article{arxiv.2603.23435,
  title  = {Exponential motives on the affine Grassmannian},
  author = {Robert Cass and Thibaud van den Hove and Jakob Scholbach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.23435},
  year   = {2026}
}

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