Exotic Springer fibers for orbits corresponding to one-row bipartitions (Q2674775)

By considering the equivariant algebraic \(K\)-theory of an exotic version of the Steinberg variety, \textit{S. Kato} [Duke Math. J. 148, No. 2, 305--371 (2009; Zbl 1183.20002); Am. J. Math. 133, No. 2, 519--553 (2011; Zbl 1242.20056)] introduced the exotic nilpotent cone to extend the Kazhdan-Lusztig-Ginzburg geometrization of affine Hecke algebras from the 1-parameter to the multi-parameter setting. Kato established a Deligne-Langlands type classification of irreducible modules of affine Hecke algebras of type \(\mathsf{C}\) with only mild restrictions on the parameters. Letting \(\mathcal{N}\subseteq \mathfrak{gl}_{2m}(\mathbb{C})\) be the ordinary nilpotent cone of type \(\mathsf{A}\) and letting \(\mathcal{S} \subseteq \mathfrak{gl}_{2m}(\mathbb{C})\) denote the \(\text{Sp}_{2m}(\mathbb{C})\)-invariant complement of \(\mathfrak{sp}_{2m}(\mathbb{C})\subseteq \mathfrak{gl}_{2m}(\mathbb{C})\), the exotic nilpotent cone is the singular affine variety \(\mathfrak{N}=\mathbb{C}^{2m}\times (\mathcal{S}\cap \mathcal{N})\). The authors study the geometry and topology of exotic Springer fibers for orbits corresponding to one-row bipartitions from a combinatorial point of view, which includes an analysis of the structure of the irreducible components and their intersections as well as the construction of an explicit affine paving. The authors also compute the ring structure of cohomology by constructing a CW-complex homotopy equivalent to the exotic Springer fiber. This homotopy equivalent space admits an action of the type \(\mathsf{C}\) Weyl group, inducing Kato's exotic Springer representation on cohomology. Their results are described in terms of the diagrammatics of the one-boundary Temperley-Lieb algebra. Saunders and Wilbert thus pave a way in generalizing the geometric analogues of Khovanov's arc algebra to the exotic setting.