Letellier's conjecture on character-variety polynomials

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For a partition λ\lambda of nn, let CλC_\lambda be the unipotent conjugacy class of GL⁡n(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

C‾μ:=GL⁡n2g×C‾μ1×⋯×C‾μk.\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)∈C‾μ(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=ζ⋅In,\prod_{i=1}^g(A_i,B_i)\prod_{j=1}^kX_j=\zeta\cdot I_n,

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

Mμ:=Zμ/ ⁣/GL⁡n=Spec⁡(C[Zμ]GL⁡n).{\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)=t−dμ/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.

References

Primary source

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

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