Parity sheaves on the affine Grassmannian and the Mirković-Vilonen conjecture (Q265870)

The main result of this paper asserts that the integral local intersection cohomology groups of spherical Schubert varieties on the affine Grassmannian have no \(p\)-torsion, as long as \(p\) is a prime which is ``good'' in the sense of the Juteau-Mautner-Williamson theory of parity sheaves. The main idea of the proof is to use the theory of parity sheaves to convert the original topological question into an algebraic question about coherent sheaves on a certain nilpotent cone. Counterexamples to the original statement for some ``bad'' primes were previously constructed by Juteau.