Integral unitary representations conjecture

Let GG be a reductive group with Langlands parameter φ\varphi satisfying IFkerφI_F\subseteq\ker\varphi and

φ(Fr)=qλ,\varphi(\mathsf{Fr})=q^\lambda,

where λ\lambda is dominant integral in the fundamental positive chamber. Let P=MNP=MN be the parabolic subgroup defined by λ\lambda, and let M=G(λ)M=G(\lambda) act on

V=g1=n/[n,n].V=\mathfrak g_1=\mathfrak n/[\mathfrak n,\mathfrak n].

Assume that VV has finitely many MM-orbits and that π(E)Π(φ)\pi(\mathcal E)\in\Pi(\varphi) is parametrised by a simple MM-equivariant perverse sheaf E\mathcal E. Integral unitary representations conjecture. The representation π(E)\pi(\mathcal E) is unitary if and only if there exists an Arthur pair (O,O)({\mathcal O},{\mathcal O}') of MM-orbits in VV such that TOV\overline{T^*_{\mathcal O}V} occurs in the characteristic cycle CC(E)CC(\mathcal E). This conjecture relates unitarity of integral Langlands representations to the geometry of characteristic cycles and Arthur pairs. Its spherical special case was verified using the classification of the spherical unitary dual, while the general equivalence is resolved in the cited work.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Dan Ciubotaru, “Unitary representations attached to parabolic subgroups: the case of abelian unipotent radical”, arXiv:2510.11862 (2025).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.