Wonderful asymptotics of matrix coefficient D-modules

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2022.108578MaRDI QIDQ6312018arXivWikidataFDO

Authors David Ben-Zvi, Iordan Ganev

Publication date 4 January 2019

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.AIM.2022.108578

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differentials and other special sheaves; D-modules; Bernstein-Sato ideals and polynomials (14F10) Compactifications; symmetric and spherical varieties (14M27) Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Semigroups (20M99)

arXiv classification

math.RT

Abstract: Beilinson-Bernstein localization realizes representations of complex reductive Lie algebras as monodromic $D$-modules on the "basic affine space" $G/N$, a torus bundle over the flag variety. A doubled version of the same space appears as the horocycle space describing the geometry of the reductive group $G$ at infinity, near the closed stratum of the wonderful compactification $overlineG$, or equivalently in the special fiber of the Vinberg semigroup of $G$. We show that Beilinson-Bernstein localization for $Umathfrakg$-bimodules arises naturally as the specialization at infinity in $overlineG$ of the $D$-modules on $G$ describing matrix coefficients of Lie algebra representations. More generally, the asymptotics of matrix coefficient $D$-modules along any stratum of $overlineG$ are given by the matrix coefficient $D$-modules for parabolic restrictions. This provides a simple algebraic derivation of the relation between growth of matrix coefficients of admissible representations and $mathfrakn$-homology. The result is an elementary consequence of the compatibility of localization with the degeneration of affine $G$-varieties to their asymptotic cones; analogous results hold for the asymptotics of the equations describing spherical functions on symmetric spaces.

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