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Shintani descent for algebraic groups and almost characters of unipotent groups

Part of: Representation theory of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2016

Tanmay Deshpande
Tanmay Deshpande*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, TIFR, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400005, India email tanmaynd2001@gmail.com
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Abstract

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In this paper, we extend the notion of Shintani descent to general (possibly disconnected) algebraic groups defined over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_{q}$. For this, it is essential to treat all the pure inner $\mathbb{F}_{q}$-rational forms of the algebraic group at the same time. We prove that the notion of almost characters (introduced by Shoji using Shintani descent) is well defined for any neutrally unipotent algebraic group, i.e. an algebraic group whose neutral connected component is a unipotent group. We also prove that these almost characters coincide with the ‘trace of Frobenius’ functions associated with Frobenius-stable character sheaves on neutrally unipotent groups. In the course of the proof, we also prove that the modular categories that arise from Boyarchenko and Drinfeld’s theory of character sheaves on neutrally unipotent groups are in fact positive integral, confirming a conjecture due to Drinfeld.

Keywords

character sheavesShintani descent

MSC classification

Primary: 20C33: Representations of finite groups of Lie type
Type
Research Article
Information
Compositio Mathematica , Volume 152 , Issue 8 , August 2016 , pp. 1697 - 1724
Copyright
© The Author 2016 

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