Exponential sums and total Weil representations of finite symplectic and unitary groups

DOI10.1112/PLMS.12390zbMATH Open1486.11149arXiv2005.09055OpenAlexW3100022763MaRDI QIDQ4957065FDOQ4957065

Authors: Nicholas M. Katz, Pham Huu Tiep 

Publication date: 3 September 2021

Published in: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct explicit local systems on the affine line in characteristic $p>2$, whose geometric monodromy groups are the finite symplectic groups $S{p}_{2n}(q)$ for all $nge2$, and others whose geometric monodromy groups are the special unitary groups $S{U}_n(q)$ for all odd $nge3$, and $q$ any power of $p$, in their total Weil representations. One principal merit of these local systems is that their associated trace functions are one-parameter families of exponential sums of a very simple, i.e., easy to remember, form. We also exhibit hypergeometric sheaves on $G_m$, whose geometric monodromy groups are the finite symplectic groups $S{p}_{2n}(q)$ for any $nge2$, and others whose geometric monodromy groups are the finite general unitary groups $G{U}_n(q)$ for any odd $ngeq3$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09055

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zbMATH Keywords

exponential summonodromy grouplocal systemfinite symplectic groupsspecial unitary groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Exponential sums (11T23) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33)

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