Character sheaves, V
Character sheaves, V
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DOI:
10.1016/0001-8708(86)90071-x
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发表时间:
1985-09
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1.7
通讯作者:
G. Lusztig
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作者:
G. Lusztig
This paper is part of a series [S, 13, 17, 24] devoted to the study of a class G of irreducible perverse sheaves (called character sheaves) on a connected reductive algebraic group G over an algebraically closed field k.(The numbering of sections, subsections, and references will continue that of the earlier parts.)Most results in this paper hold under a very mild restriction on the characteristic of k, see (23.0. 1). For simplicity, in this introduction, we assume that the characteristic of k is good for G; this implies in particular that (23.0. 1) holds. One of our main results is Theorem 23.1 which gives a classification of the character sheaves of G on which the group of components of the centre acts faithfully; moreover, it gives a multiplicity formula rather analogous to the main theorem (4.23) in [6]; it also states that G is clean (in the sense of (13.9. 2)), it satisfies the parity condition (15.13) and that the class of character sheaves on G coincides with the class of admissible complexes defined in [4]. In the case of groups of type A and exceptional groups, this has been essentially done in part IV [24]; the case of classical groups is dealt with in this paper (Sections 22 and 23). One of the applications of our results is the computation of the local intersection cohomology sheaves%‘“IC (C, b) of the closure C of any unipotent class C in G with coefficients in any G-equivariant irreducible local system d on C. For G= GL,(k), this was done in [22]; for the other simple G, it has been done in [27, 28, 20] for those (C, B) which are assumed to be in the image of Springer’s correspondence [7]. In this paper, we complete this computation by removing the last assumption on (C, 8).(See Theorem 24.8.) The computation uses in an essential way the theory of character sheaves. In Section 25, it is shown that in the case where G is defined over F,, the characteristic functions 1 A, BA (see (252.1)) of the character sheaves A which are themselves defined over Fq, form an orthonormal basis of the space of class functions on G (F,). It may be conjectured that this is the