Character \(D\)-modules via Drinfeld center of Harish-Chandra bimodules. (Q431128)

The main result of this paper realizes the category of character \(D\)-modules as the Drinfeld center of the Abelian monoidal category of Harish-Chandra bimodules. As an application, the authors give a new proof for Lusztig's classification of irreducible character sheaves over \(\mathbb C\) (under a mild technical assumption), a simple description for the top cohomology of convolution of character sheaves over \(\mathbb C\) in a given cell modulo smaller cells and relate the Harish-Chandra functor to Verdier specialization in the De Concini-Procesi compactification.