Conjecture on the leading weight of functions on a finite nilpotent-orbit cover

Let LO{^{\scriptscriptstyle L\!}}{\mathcal O} be a nilpotent orbit in the Lie algebra of the Langlands dual group, let O=d(LO)\mathcal O=d({^{\scriptscriptstyle L\!}}{\mathcal O}) be the dual nilpotent orbit, and let O~=G/K\widetilde{\mathcal O}=G/K be the associated finite cover. Write the GG-module of global functions as

C[O~]=λΛ+mλIndTGλ,\mathbb C[\widetilde{\mathcal O}]=\sum_{\lambda\in\Lambda_+}m_\lambda\operatorname{Ind}_T^G\lambda,

and let μ\mu be a weight of largest length with mμ0m_\mu\ne0. Leading-weight conjecture. The weight μ\mu is unique and is the Dynkin weight of LO{^{\scriptscriptstyle L\!}}{\mathcal O}. This is a more concrete formulation for the associated finite cover: it predicts that the highest-length induced representation occurring in its coordinate ring is uniquely determined by the Dynkin weight of the Langlands-dual orbit. The source does not give a resolution, so the claim remains open.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Pramod Achar and Eric Sommers, “Local Systems on Nilpotent Orbits and Weighted Dynkin Diagrams”, arXiv:math/0201248 (2002).

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.