Modular generalized Springer correspondence. I: The general linear group (Q726753)

This paper is the first in a series devoted to constructing and describing a modular generalized Springer correspondence for reductive algebraic groups, with a view to a future theory of modular character sheaves. In this paper the authors consider the \(\mathrm{GL}(n)\) case. They determine the cuspidal pairs, and compute the correspondence explicitly. They define a stratification of the category of equivariant perverse sheaves on the nilpotent cone of \(\mathrm{GL}(n)\) satisfying the ``recollement'' properties, and with subquotients equivalent to categories of representations of a product of symmetric groups.