Truncated convolution of character sheaves

Abstract

Let G be a reductive connected group over an algebraic closure of a finite field. I define a tensor structure on the category of perverse sheaves on G which are direct sums of unipotent character sheaves in a fixed two-sided cell, in accordance with a conjecture I have made in 2004. I also show that that the resulting monoidal category is equivalent to the centre of a monoidal category which I defined in 1997 (a categorical version of the J-ring attached to the same two-sided cell), thus verifying a conjecture of Bezrukavnikov, Finkelberg, Ostrik. A possible interpretation of unipotent characters associated to a finite noncrystallographic Coxeter group is given.

57 pages. This version contains several additions to version 1 and 2, in particular it contains a proof of a conjecture of Bezrukavnikov, Finkelberg and Ostrik and also some remarks on the unipotent characters associated to a finite noncrystallographic Coxeter group

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