Shintani descent for algebraic groups and almost characters of unipotent groups

DOI10.1112/S0010437X16007429MaRDI QIDQ5360233zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tanmay Deshpande

Publication date 28 September 2017

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.06198

zbMATH Keywords

character sheavesShintani descent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Presheaves and sheaves, stacks, descent conditions (category-theoretic aspects) (18F20) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33)

Abstract: In this paper, we extend the notion of Shintani descent to general (possibly disconnected) algebraic groups defined over a finite field $mathbb{F}_q$. For this, it is essential to treat all the pure inner $mathbb{F}_q$-rational forms of the algebraic group at the same time. We prove that the notion of almost characters (introduced by T. Shoji using Shintani descent) is well defined for any neutrally unipotent algebraic group, i.e. an algebraic group whose neutral connected component is a unipotent group. We also prove that these almost characters coincide with the "trace of Frobenius" functions associated with Frobenius-stable character sheaves on neutrally unipotent groups. In the course of the proof, we also prove that the modular categories that arise from Boyarchenko-Drinfeld's theory of character sheaves on neutrally unipotent are in fact positive integral confirming a conjecture due to Drinfeld.

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