Cohomology of Deligne-Lusztig varieties.

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2006.06.001MaRDI QIDQ868919zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors François Digne, Jean Michel, Raphaël Rouquier

Publication date 26 February 2007

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410454

Abstract: We study the cohomology of Deligne-Lusztig varieties with aim the construction of actions of Hecke algebras on such cohomologies, as predicted by the conjectures of Brou'{e}, Malle and Michel ultimately aimed at providing an explicit version of the abelian defect conjecture. We develop the theory for varieties associated to elements of the braid monoid and partial compactifications of them. We are able to compute the cohomology of varieties associated to (possibly twisted) rank 2 groups and powers of the longest element

w_{0}

(some indeterminacies remain for

G_{2}

). We use this to construct Hecke algebra actions on the cohomology of varieties associated to

w_{0}

or its square, for groups of arbitrary rank. In a subsequent work, we construct actions associated to more general regular elements and we study their trace on cohomology.

Review text

This paper constructs actions of Iwahori-Hecke algebras on étale cohomology of certain generalized Deligne-Lusztig varieties, with the ultimate aim of getting a more elaborate version of the Abelian defect conjecture of Broué. Let \(\mathbf G\) be a connected reductive group defined over the algebraic closure of the prime field \(\mathbb{F}_p\). Let \(F\) be an isogeny of \(\mathbf G\) with a power \(F^\delta\) that is the Frobenius with respect to a split form of \(\mathbf G\) over some \(\mathbb{F}_{p^m}\). Let \(\mathcal B\) be the flag variety of \(\mathbf G\). The \(\mathbf G\)-orbits in \(\mathcal B\times\mathcal B\) correspond with the elements of the Weyl group \(W\). One may also let the elements of the Weyl group correspond with the \(\mathbf G\)-orbit closures in \(\mathcal B\times\mathcal B\). Mixing these two alternatives leads to variations on the Deligne-Lusztig varieties that are partial compactifications of the original ones. More specifically, in addition to the Artin-Tits braid monoid \(B^+\) one defines a bigger monoid \(\underline B^+\) that contains one copy of \(w\in W\) for each of the two alternatives. To every element \(\mathbf t\) of \(\underline B^+\) is attached a generalized Deligne-Lusztig variety \(\mathbf X(\mathbf t)\). Take a prime \(\ell\) different from \(p\). One is interested in the \((\overline\mathbb{Q}_\ell\mathbf G^F)\)-module structure of the \(\ell\)-adic cohomology with proper support \(H^i_c(\mathbf X(\mathbf t),\overline\mathbb{Q}_\ell)\). First the paper develops machinery similar to the one that already exists for the case \(\mathbf t\in B^+\). Let \(\mathbf w_0\) be the lift to \(B^+\) of minimal length of the longest element \(w_0\) in \(W\). For the rank two groups, except for split \(G_2\), the module structure of \(H^i_c(\mathbf X(\mathbf t),\overline\mathbb{Q}_\ell)\) is completely determined for certain \(\mathbf t\in\underline B^+\), including all powers of \(\mathbf w_0\). Then these rank two results are used to construct Hecke algebra actions on the cohomology of \(\mathbf X(\mathbf w_0)\) and \(\mathbf X(\mathbf w_0^2)\) in the higher rank cases.

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