Reuman's dimension conjecture for shrunken affine Deligne–Lusztig varieties

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Let GG be a reductive group with extended affine Weyl group W~\widetilde W, finite Weyl group WW, and simple reflections SS. Let [b][b] be a basic σ\sigma-conjugacy class. For x∈W~x\in\widetilde W, let η1(x)\eta_1(x) be its finite Weyl-group projection and let η2(x)\eta_2(x) be the Weyl chamber containing the alcove xax\mathbf a. Let ηG\eta_G be the Kottwitz invariant, let WTW_T be the subgroup generated by T⊆ST\subseteq S, let ℓ\ell be the length function, and let def⁡G(b)\operatorname{def}_G(b) be the defect.

Reuman's conjecture. If xx lies in the shrunken Weyl chambers, then Xx(b)≠∅X_x(b)\ne\emptyset if and only if

ηG(x)=ηG(b),η2(x)−1η1(x)η2(x)∈W∖⋃T⊊SWT.\eta_G(x)=\eta_G(b),\qquad \eta_2(x)^{-1}\eta_1(x)\eta_2(x)\in W\setminus\bigcup_{T\subsetneq S}W_T.

When these conditions hold,

dim⁡Xx(b)=12(ℓ(x)+ℓ(η2(x)−1η1(x)η2(x))−def⁡G(b)).\dim X_x(b)=\frac{1}{2}\left(\ell(x)+\ell\left(\eta_2(x)^{-1}\eta_1(x)\eta_2(x)\right)-\operatorname{def}_G(b)\right).

This extends the earlier conjecture for b=1b=1 to all basic bb; the paper reports computer evidence but does not prove the full assertion.

References

Primary source

Ulrich Goertz, Thomas J. Haines, Robert E. Kottwitz and Daniel C. Reuman, “Affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties in affine flag varieties”, arXiv:0805.0045 (2010).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2005–2008). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0504443.

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