Purity conjecture for additive character varieties

Let YY be the additive character variety associated to a reductive group GG, a genus gg, and a tuple of GG-orbits in the Lie algebra, under the additive genericity assumptions. Purity conjecture. The variety YY is pure; consequently, its point-counting polynomial Y(Fq)|Y(\mathbb{F}_q)| has non-negative coefficients. This would generalize the corresponding non-negativity result known for additive character varieties when G=GLnG=\mathrm{GL}_n, where the varieties are isomorphic to quiver varieties; the source reports only computer evidence in the reductive setting.

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Masoud Kamgarpour, GyeongHyeon Nam, Bailey Whitbread and Stefano Giannini, “Counting points on generic character varieties”, arXiv:2409.04735 (2026).

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