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Relative Dolbeault Geometric Langlands via the Regular Quotient

Algebraic Geometry 2025-09-09 v2

Abstract

Let X=G/HX = G/H be an affine homogeneous spherical variety with abelian regular centralizer and no type N roots. In this paper, we formulate a relative geometric Langlands conjecture in the Dolbeault setting for M=TXM = T^*X. More concretely, we conjecture a Fourier-Mukai duality between the Dolbeault period sheaf and a sheaf whose construction closely resembles the Dirac-Higgs bundle of a polarization of the dual symplectic representation of Ben-Zvi, Sakellaridis, and Venkatesh. These conjectures can be seen as a generalization of Hitchin's conjectural duality of branes for symmetric spaces. We verify these conjectures in several cases, including the Friedberg-Jacquet case X=GL2n/GLn×GLnX = GL_{2n}/GL_n\times GL_n, the Jacquet-Ichino case X=PGL23/PGL2X = PGL_2^3/PGL_2, the Rankin-Selberg case X=GLn×GLn+1/GLnX = GL_n\times GL_{n+1}/GL_n, and the Gross-Prasad case X=SOn×SOn+1/SOnX = SO_n\times SO_{n+1}/SO_n. Our main tool is the theory of the regular quotient, which was described in the context of symmetric spaces in [HM24].

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@article{arxiv.2409.15691,
  title  = {Relative Dolbeault Geometric Langlands via the Regular Quotient},
  author = {Thomas Hameister and Zhilin Luo and Benedict Morrissey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.15691},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v2: Added assumptions on flatness of regular centralizers, and corrected 2 critical errors in main statements: the placement of the exterior algebra in the Dirac-Higgs bundle in Conjecture 1.9 and the statement of our main global result, Conjecture 1.10, which is a weaker version of Conjecture 1.9 that is proven in examples. Sections 2, 4, and 5 have been heavily re-written