Varieties of modules of \(F\)-sheaves (Q1115916)

This article is the first in a series of papers aiming to prove a part of the Langlands conjecture for \(\mathrm{GL}(2)\) over a global field \(k\) of characteristic \(p>0.\) More precisely, one wants to construct a map \(\Sigma_ 2\to \Sigma_ 1\) where: \(\Sigma_ 1\) is the set of irreducible 2-dimensional representations over \({\overline{\mathbb Q}}_{\ell}\) \((\ell \neq p)\) of the Weyl group of \(k\), continuous in the \(\ell\)-adic topology and with finitely many branching points, and \(\Sigma_ 2\) is the set of irreducible representations of \(\mathrm{GL}(2)\) over the adeles of \(k\) in the space of \({\overline {\mathbb Q}}_{\ell}\)-valued parabolic forms. One of the main methods in order to do this is to study the geometry of the moduli space of \(F\)-modules of rank 2. The paper under review deals precisely with this study.