Modular categories, orbit method and character sheaves on unipotent groups
Abstract
Let be a unipotent group over a field of characteristic . The theory of character sheaves on was initiated by V. Drinfeld and developed jointly with D. Boyarchenko. They also introduced the notion of -packets of character sheaves. Each -packet can be described in terms of a modular category. Now suppose that the nilpotence class of is less than . Then the -packets are in bijection with the set of coadjoint orbits, where is the Lie ring scheme obtained from using the Lazard correspondence and is the Serre dual of . If is a coadjoint orbit, then the corresponding modular category can be identified with the category of -equivariant local systems on . 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 is even.
Cite
@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}
}