Shintani descent for algebraic groups and almost characters of unipotent groups

Deshpande, Tanmay

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“…This is a categorical analogue of the classical notion of Shintani descent that appears in the character theory of algebraic groups defined over finite fields (cf. [Sho], [De2]). Let m be a positive integer.…”

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Modular Categories, Crossed S-matrices, and Shintani Descent

Deshpande

2016

Int Math Res Notices

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Let C be a modular tensor category over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic 0. Then there is the ubiquitous notion of the S-matrix S(C ) associated with the modular category. The matrix S(C ) is a symmetric matrix, its entries are cyclotomic integers and the matrix (dim C ) − 1 2 · S(C ) is a unitary matrix. Here dim C ∈ k denotes the categorical dimension of C and it is a totally positive cyclotomic integer. Now suppose that we also have a modular autoequivalence F : C → C . In this paper, we will define and study the notion of a crossed S-matrix associated with the modular autoequivalence F . We will see that the crossed S-matrix occurs as a submatrix of the usual S-matrix of some "bigger" modular category and hence the entries of a crossed S-matrix are also cyclotomic integers. We will prove that the crossed S-matrix (normalized by the factor (dim C ) − 1 2 ) associated with any modular autoequivalence is a unitary matrix. We will also prove that the crossed S-matrix is essentially the "character table" of a certain semisimple commutative Frobenius k-algebra associated with the modular autoequivalence F . The motivation for most of our results comes from the theory of character sheaves on algebraic groups, where we expect that the transition matrices between irreducible characters and character sheaves can be obtained as certain crossed S-matrices. In the character theory of algebraic groups defined over finite fields, there is the notion of Shintani descent of Frobenius stable characters. We will define and study a categorical analogue of this notion of Shintani descent in the setting of modular categories.

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“…The operator Θ : K Q ab (C , F ) ∼ = −→ K Q ab (C , F ) is an analogue of the Asai twisting operator (cf. [Sho], [De2,Prop. 3.4]).…”

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Modular Categories, Crossed S-matrices, and Shintani Descent

Deshpande

2016

Int Math Res Notices

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“…We will also continue to use all the notation from [De4]. In particular, we have the set (1) Irrep(G, F ) := g ∈H 1 (F,G)…”

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“…Here g ∈ G and gF := ad(g) • F : G −→ G is another F qFrobenius map for G. The pure inner forms of G F are parametrized by the finite set H 1 (F, G) of F -twisted conjugacy classes in G. Note that if G is connected, then by Lang's theorem H 1 (F, G) is singleton and we have only one pure inner form. We refer to [De3,§2.4.1], [De4,§1.2] for more on these notions.…”

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Character sheaves on neutrally solvable groups

Deshpande

2017

Represent. Theory

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Abstract. Let G be an algebraic group over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic p > 0. In this paper we develop the theory of character sheaves on groups G such that their neutral connected components G • are solvable algebraic groups. For such algebraic groups G (which we call neutrally solvable) we will define the set CS(G) of character sheaves on G as certain special (isomorphism classes of) objects in the category D G (G) of G-equivariant Qcomplexes (where we fix a prime = p) on G. We will describe a partition of the set CS(G) into finite sets known as L-packets and we will associate a modular category M L with each L-packet L of character sheaves using a truncated version of convolution of character sheaves. In the case where k = F q and G is equipped with an F q -Frobenius F we will study the relationship between F -stable character sheaves on G and the irreducible characters of (all pure inner forms of) G F . In particular, we will prove that the notion of almost characters (introduced by T. Shoji using Shintani descent) is well defined for neutrally solvable groups and that these almost characters coincide with the "trace of Frobenius" functions associated with F -stable character sheaves. We will also prove that the matrix relating the irreducible characters and almost characters is block diagonal where the blocks on the diagonal are parametrized by F -stable L-packets. Moreover, we will prove that the block in this transition matrix corresponding to any F -stable L-packet L can be described as the crossed S-matrix associated with the auto-equivalence of the modular category M L induced by F .

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Crossed S-matrices and character sheaves on unipotent groups

Deshpande¹

2017

Advances in Mathematics

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Shintani descent for algebraic groups and almost characters of unipotent groups

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