Gauge symmetry breaking conjecture for vacuum-restricted geometric Langlands categories

Let GG be a reductive group, let h\mathfrak h be a Cartan subalgebra with Weyl group WW, and let vh/Wv\in\mathfrak h^*/W. Let xgx\in\mathfrak g^* be a semisimple lift of vv, and let LL be the centralizer of xx in g\mathfrak g^*. Write IndCohArthGv(C)( ⁣(t) ⁣)(FlatG(C))( ⁣(t) ⁣)\operatorname{IndCoh}_{\operatorname{Arth}^v_G(C)(\!(t)\!)}(\operatorname{Flat}_G(C))(\!(t)\!) for the category obtained by restricting IndCoh(FlatG(C))( ⁣(t) ⁣)\operatorname{IndCoh}(\operatorname{Flat}_G(C))(\!(t)\!) at the vacuum vv, and let NL\mathcal N_L denote the nilpotent singular-support condition for LL. Gauge symmetry breaking conjecture. There is an equivalence

IndCohArthGv(C)( ⁣(t) ⁣)(FlatG(C))( ⁣(t) ⁣)IndCohNL(FlatL(C))( ⁣(t) ⁣).\operatorname{IndCoh}_{\operatorname{Arth}^v_G(C)(\!(t)\!)}(\operatorname{Flat}_G(C))(\!(t)\!)\simeq\operatorname{IndCoh}_{\mathcal N_L}(\operatorname{Flat}_L(C))(\!(t)\!).

This predicts that moving away from the zero vacuum replaces the geometric Langlands category for GG by the nilpotent singular-support category for the Levi subgroup determined by the semisimple vacuum. The paper presents this as a conjectural geometric description of the more general vacuum-compatible categories.

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Chris Elliott and Philsang Yoo, “A Physical Origin for Singular Support Conditions in Geometric Langlands Theory”, arXiv:1707.01292 (2019).

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