Conjecture on vanishing of Picard–Lefschetz pairings modulo the identity component

In the situation of the Picard–Lefschetz formula, let c1=w1c0c_1=w_1c_0 and c2=w2c0c_2=w_2c_0 with w1,w2Ww_1,w_2\in W, and let Wχ0W_\chi^0 be the specified subgroup of WW. Assume that the cosets w1Wχ0w_1W_\chi^0 and w2Wχ0w_2W_\chi^0 are distinct as elements of W/Wχ0W/W_\chi^0. Vanishing conjecture. Then

u1u2=0.\partial u_1\pitchfork\partial u_2^*=0.

This is explicitly described as a slight modification of a preceding corollary. The parser supplies no evidence resolving it, so its status remains open.

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Mikhail Grinberg, Kari Vilonen and Ting Xue, “Nearby Cycle Sheaves for Stable Polar Representations”, arXiv:2012.14522 (2025).

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