Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2022
In this paper we construct an action of the affine Hecke category (in its ‘Soergel bimodules’ incarnation) on the principal block of representations of a simply connected semisimple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic bigger than the Coxeter number. This confirms a conjecture of G. Williamson and the second author, and provides a new proof of the tilting character formula in terms of antispherical $p$-Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials.
R.B. was supported by NSF grant no. DMS-1601953, and his work was partly supported by grants from the Institute for Advanced Study and Carnegie Corporation of New York. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (S.R., grant agreements no. 677147 and no. 101002592).