McGovern's character formula conjecture for nilpotent orbit coordinate rings

Let GG be a complex reductive group, let WGW_G be its Weyl group, and let O\mathcal{O} be a nilpotent orbit. Write R(O)R(\mathcal{O}) for the GG-module of regular functions on O\mathcal{O}, and let IndTG(λ)Ind_T^G(\lambda) denote the induced representation associated with a character λ\lambda.

McGovern's conjecture. For each nilpotent orbit O\mathcal{O}, there are a fixed character μ\mu, rational numbers cwc_w, and a subset WOW_{\mathcal{O}} of WGW_G such that

R(O)wWOcwIndTG(μwμ).R(\mathcal{O}) \cong \sum_{w \in W_{\mathcal{O}}} c_w Ind_T^G(\mu-w\cdot\mu).

The conjecture gives a uniform Weyl-group expression for the GG-structure of regular functions on nilpotent orbits. The paper proves it for the orbits (22p12q)(2^{2p}1^{2q}) in Sp(2n,C)Sp(2n,\mathbb{C}) and for their simply connected covers; its status beyond these cases is not specified here.

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Primary source

Kayue Daniel Wong, “Regular Functions of Symplectic Spherical Nilpotent Orbits and their Quantizations”, arXiv:1511.04800 (2015).

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