We calculate the local Fourier transformations for a class of Q ℓ -sheaves. In particular, we verify a conjecture of Laumon and Malgrange ([18] 2.6.3). As an application, we calculate the local monodromy of ℓ-adic hypergeometric sheaves introduced by Katz ([15]). We also discuss the characteristic p analogue of the Turrittin-Levelt Theorem for D-modules.We thus haveWe have seen that W is an irreducible representation of J ′ . Note that J ′ is a normal subgroup of J since P ⊂ J ′ ⊂ J and J/P is abelian. Using this fact, the fact that W ⊗ K is an irreducible representation of J ′ , and Proposition 22 inis an irreducible representation of J. This finishes the proof of (i).(ii) Keep the notations in the proof of (i). We have shownirreducible and the action of g N on Hom P (W, V W ) has a single Jordan block, Hom P (W, V W ) must have dimension 1. So after twisting W by a one dimensional representation, we may assume V ∼ = Ind J J ′ (W ), where W is a representation of J ′ which is irreducible as a representation of P . Let ρ : J ′ → GL(W ) be the homomorphism defined by the representation W . ρ(P ) is a finite group. For any h ∈ J ′ , let ρ(h) act on this finite group by conjugation. There exists a positive integer r such that the conjugation by ρ(h r )induces the identity map on ρ(P ). For example, we can take r to be the order of the automorphism group of ρ(P ). Thus we havefor any σ ∈ P , that is, ρ(g rN ) is a P -equivariant isomorphism of W . But W is an irreducible representation of P . So ρ(g rN ) is a scalar multiplication by Schur's Lemma. Choose c ∈ Q ℓ such that * ℓ by χ(1) = c. We claim that the representation V ⊗ K χ −1 factors through a finite discrete quotient group of J. We haveIt suffices to show W ⊗ Res J J ′ K χ −1 factors through a finite discrete quotient group of J ′ . By our construction, g rN acts trivially on W ⊗ Res J J ′ K χ −1 . Moreover, there exists an open subgroup P ′ of P such that P ′ acts trivially on W ⊗ Res J J ′ K χ −1 . Since the subgroup of J ′ generated by P ′ and g rN has finite index, our assertion follows.(iii) Let V = W ⊗ U (n). We can find a filtrationof V by J-invariant subspaces such that F i /F i+1 ∼ = W for any 0 ≤ i ≤ n − 1. By the Jordan-Hölder theorem, any irreducible subquotient of V is isomorphic to W . Write V = V 1 ⊕ · · · ⊕ V m so that each V i is indecomposable. By (i), we must have