A proof of De Concini-Kac-Procesi conjecture and Lusztig's partition

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• Alexey Sevastyanov, University of Aberdeen
• Thursday 12 November 2015, 16:00-17:00
• Watson Building, Lecture Room B.

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In 1992 De Concini, Kac and Procesi observed that isomorphism classes of irreducible representations of a quantum group at odd primitive root of unity m are parameterized by conjugacy classes in the corresponding algebraic group G. They also conjectured that the dimensions of irreducible representations corresponding to a given conjugacy class O are divisible by m^{1/2 dim O}. In this talk I shall outline a proof of an improved version of this conjecture and derive some important consequences of it related to q-W algebras.

A key ingredient of the proof are transversal slices S to the set of conjugacy classes in G. Namely, for every conjugacy class O in G one can find a special transversal slice S such that O intersects S and dim O = codim S. The construction of the slice utilizes some new combinatorics related to invariant planes for the action of Weyl group elements in the real reflection representation. The condition dim O = codim S is checked using some new mysterious results by Lusztig on intersection of conjugacy classes in algebraic groups with Bruhat cells.

This talk is part of the Algebra seminar series.

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