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Weyl group actions on the Springer sheaf

Representation Theory 2014-06-18 v2

Abstract

We show that two Weyl group actions on the Springer sheaf with arbitrary coefficients, one defined by Fourier transform and one by restriction, agree up to a twist by the sign character. This generalizes a familiar result from the setting of l-adic cohomology, making it applicable to modular representation theory. We use the Weyl group actions to define a Springer correspondence in this generality, and identify the zero weight spaces of small representations in terms of this Springer correspondence.

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@article{arxiv.1304.2642,
  title  = {Weyl group actions on the Springer sheaf},
  author = {Pramod N. Achar and Anthony Henderson and Daniel Juteau and Simon Riche},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.2642},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

27 pages; version 2: accepted version, with minor changes recommended by referee

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