Bonnafé's fixed-point conjecture for two-sided cells

Let GG be a complex reductive group with Cartan subalgebra t\mathfrak{t}, Weyl group WW, and A=C[tt]sgnA=\mathbb{C}[\mathfrak{t}\oplus\mathfrak{t}^*]^{\mathrm{sgn}}. Set Δ=αΦ+α\Delta=\prod_{\alpha\in\Phi^+}\alpha and define

Xg,sgn:=Projd0(ΔA)d.X_{\mathfrak{g},\mathrm{sgn}}:=\operatorname{Proj}\bigoplus_{d\geq 0}(\Delta A)^d.

The construction has a natural C×\mathbb{C}^\times-action. Bonnafé's fixed-point conjecture. There is a bijection

{two-sided cells in W}Xg,sgnC×.\{\text{two-sided cells in }W\}\leftrightarrow X_{\mathfrak{g},\mathrm{sgn}}^{\mathbb{C}^\times}.

Consequently, there are only finitely many fixed points, depending only on WW; the claim is known for g=gln\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{gl}_n and for type B2B_2, but remains open in general.

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Oscar Kivinen, “A Lie-theoretic generalization of some Hilbert schemes”, arXiv:2512.08532 (2025).

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