Langlands duality conjecture for homomorphisms from finite subgroups of SU(2)SU(2)

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Let Γ\Gamma be a finite group, and let GG be a connected compact simple Lie group. Write N(Γ,G)N(\Gamma,G) for the number of homomorphisms from Γ\Gamma to GG up to conjugation by GG. A connected compact simple Lie group G~\widetilde G is Langlands dual to GG when its root lattice, weight lattice, and Cartan-torus character lattice are respectively the duals of the weight lattice, root lattice, and character lattice of GG. Langlands duality conjecture. If Γ\Gamma is a finite subgroup of SU(2)SU(2) and (G,G~)(G,\widetilde G) is a Langlands dual pair, then

N(Γ,G)=N(Γ,G~).N(\Gamma,G)=N(\Gamma,\widetilde G).

The conjecture predicts equality of the numbers of conjugacy classes of homomorphisms into Langlands-dual groups, a phenomenon motivated by four-dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theory. The source presents it as a conjecture and mentions that a more refined version and proofs of some concrete cases are available, while asking for a uniform proof in all cases.

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Yuki Kojima and Yuji Tachikawa, “On homomorphisms from finite subgroups of SU(2) to Langlands dual pairs of groups”, arXiv:2505.01253 (2025).

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