The hyperelliptic orbital-integral conjecture for classical groups

Orbital integrals for classical groups are expected to be related only to hyperelliptic curves. The precise formulation below concerns the cohomology of Hessenberg varieties. Hyperelliptic cohomology conjecture. For H^e(γ)\hat{\mathcal{H}}_{e}(\gamma) as in this section, with GkˉG_{\bar{k}} having only isogenous factors of types A\mathrm{A}, B\mathrm{B}, C\mathrm{C}, D\mathrm{D}, and G2\mathrm{G}_2, the semisimplification of the Q[Gal(kˉ/k)]\overline{\mathbb{Q}}_{\ell}[\operatorname{Gal}(\bar{k}/k)]-module

Hc(H^e(γ)kˉ,Q)H^*_c(\hat{\mathcal{H}}_{e}(\gamma)\otimes\bar{k},\overline{\mathbb{Q}}_{\ell})

is isomorphic to a direct sum of some submodules of certain tensor products of Hc1(,Q)H^1_c(-,\overline{\mathbb{Q}}_{\ell}) for hyperelliptic curves and Hc0(,Q)H^0_c(-,\overline{\mathbb{Q}}_{\ell}) for finite étale schemes. This would give a precise cohomological form of the expectation that orbital integrals for classical groups involve only hyperelliptic curves; the source gives no resolution, while examples in the surrounding discussion indicate that non-hyperelliptic curves occur in type E\mathrm{E} outside the stated types.

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Cheng-Chiang Tsai, “Inductive structure of Shalika germs and affine Springer fibers”, arXiv:1512.00445 (2015).

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