The Whittaker conditions for fundamental classes of Uhlenbeck spaces

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Let ∣1d⟩=[UGd]|1^d\rangle=[\mathcal U_G^d] be the fundamental class in equivariant intersection cohomology, and let W~n(κ)\widetilde W^{(\kappa)}_n denote the positive modes of the generators of the universal W-algebra, where 1≤κ≤ℓ1\leq \kappa\leq \ell. Whittaker conjecture. For d≥1d\geq1 and n>0n>0,

W~n(κ)∣1d⟩={∣1d−1⟩if κ=ℓ and n=1,0otherwise.\widetilde W^{(\kappa)}_n|1^d\rangle= \begin{cases} |1^{d-1}\rangle&\text{if $\kappa=\ell$ and $n=1$},\\ 0&\text{otherwise}. \end{cases}

These relations characterize the fundamental classes as Whittaker-type vectors and connect the geometry of Uhlenbeck spaces with representation theory of the W-algebra. The source presents them as conjectural and gives no resolution evidence.

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Alexander Braverman, Michael Finkelberg and Hiraku Nakajima, “Instanton moduli spaces and W-algebras”, arXiv:1406.2381 (2016).

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