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Modular categories, orbit method and character sheaves on unipotent groups

Representation Theory 2013-11-05 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a unipotent group over a field of characteristic p>0p > 0. The theory of character sheaves on GG was initiated by V. Drinfeld and developed jointly with D. Boyarchenko. They also introduced the notion of L\mathbb{L}-packets of character sheaves. Each L\mathbb{L}-packet can be described in terms of a modular category. Now suppose that the nilpotence class of GG is less than pp. Then the L\mathbb{L}-packets are in bijection with the set g/G\mathfrak{g}^*/G of coadjoint orbits, where g\mathfrak{g} is the Lie ring scheme obtained from GG using the Lazard correspondence and g\mathfrak{g}^* is the Serre dual of GG. If Ω\Omega is a coadjoint orbit, then the corresponding modular category can be identified with the category of GG-equivariant local systems on Ω\Omega. This in turn is equivalent to the category of finite dimensional representations of a finite group. However, the associativity, braiding and ribbon constraints are nontrivial. Drinfeld gave a conjectural description of these constraints in 2006. In this article, we prove the formula describing the ribbon structure when dim(Ω)\dim(\Omega) is even.

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@article{arxiv.1311.0551,
  title  = {Modular categories, orbit method and character sheaves on unipotent groups},
  author = {Swarnendu Datta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.0551},
  year   = {2013}
}
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