Representations of the elliptic affine Hecke algebras (Q2065929)

The paper is a beautiful contribution to the emerging subject of elliptic geometric representation theory. Its introductory sections review, reformulate, and explain equivariant elliptic cohomology, and the related algebraic constructions (essentially the elliptic Hecke algebras, elliptic quantum groups). The first remarkable result is the identification of two constructions of elliptic Hecke algebras: one defined using convolution products and the other the algebraic elliptic Hecke algebra. After this preparation the main result is Theorem B, the bijection between irreducible representations of the elliptic affine Hecke algebra and certain geometric objects, namely nilpotent Higgs bundles. This identification can be interpreted as the elliptic Deligne-Langlands correspondence. The geometric tool used in the proof is the equivariant elliptic cohomology of a Steinberg variety. Combinatorial aspects of the representations at roots of unity are also studied. Another byproduct of the main results of the paper is the derivation of Demazure-Lusztig operators in equivariant elliptic cohomology. These had been the main tools in elliptic Schubert calculus.