Letellier's conjecture on character-variety polynomials

For a partition λ\lambda of nn, let CλC_\lambda be the unipotent conjugacy class of GLn(C)\operatorname{GL}_n(\mathbb{C}) whose Jordan-block sizes are given by the dual partition λ\lambda'. For a multi-partition μ=(μ1,,μk)\bm{\mu}=(\mu^1,\dots,\mu^k) of nn, define

Cμ:=GLn2g×Cμ1××Cμk.\overline{C}_{\bm{\mu}}:=\operatorname{GL}_n^{2g}\times \overline{C}_{\mu^1}\times\cdots\times \overline{C}_{\mu^k}.

Fix a primitive nn-th root of unity ζ\zeta, and let Zμ{\mathcal{Z}}_{\bm{\mu}} be the space of tuples

(A1,,Ag,B1,,Bg,X1,,Xk)Cμ(A_1,\dots,A_g,B_1,\dots,B_g,X_1,\dots,X_k)\in\overline{C}_{\bm{\mu}}

satisfying

i=1g(Ai,Bi)j=1kXj=ζIn,\prod_{i=1}^g(A_i,B_i)\prod_{j=1}^kX_j=\zeta\cdot I_n,

where (A,B)=ABA1B1(A,B)=ABA^{-1}B^{-1}. Put

Mμ:=Zμ/ ⁣/GLn=Spec(C[Zμ]GLn).{\mathcal{M}}_{\bm{\mu}}:={\mathcal{Z}}_{\bm{\mu}}/\!/\operatorname{GL}_n=\operatorname{Spec}\left(\mathbb{C}[{\mathcal{Z}}_{\bm{\mu}}]^{\operatorname{GL}_n}\right).

Let PPc(Mμ,t):=sihcs,s;2s(Mμ)tsPP_c({\mathcal{M}}_{\bm{\mu}},t):=\sum_s ih_c^{s,s;2s}({\mathcal{M}}_{\bm{\mu}})t^s be the pure part of the compactly supported mixed Poincaré polynomial, and let Vμ(t)V_{\bm{\mu}}(t) and dμd_{\bm{\mu}} be as above. Letellier's conjecture.

Vμ(t)=tdμ/2PPc(Mμ,t).V_{\bm{\mu}}(t)=t^{-d_{\bm{\mu}}/2}PP_c({\mathcal{M}}_{\bm{\mu}},t).

This conjecture proposes the interpretation of the polynomials Vμ(t)V_{\bm{\mu}}(t) as pure compactly supported intersection-cohomology polynomials of character varieties. It is attributed in the source to Letellier, and the status is not determined by the provided text.

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Primary source

Emmanuel Letellier, “Tensor products of unipotent characters of general linear groups over finite fields”, arXiv:1204.2690 (2012).

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