Bezrukavnikov, Roman On tensor categories attached to cells in affine Weyl groups. (English) Zbl 1078.20044 Shoji, Toshiaki (ed.) et al., Representation theory of algebraic groups and quantum groups. Papers from the conference held as the 10th International Research Institute of the Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ-IRI) at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, August 1–10, 2001. Tokyo: Mathematical Society of Japan (ISBN 4-931469-25-6/hbk). Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics 40, 69-90 (2004). This paper is devoted to Lusztig’s bijection between unipotent conjugacy classes in a simple complex algebraic group and two-sided cells in the affine Weyl group of the Langlands dual group; and also to the description of the reductive quotient of the centralizer of the unipotent element in terms of convolution of perverse sheaves on the affine flag variety of the dual group conjectured by G. Lusztig [in Adv. Math. 129, No. 1, 85-98 (1997; Zbl 0884.20026)]. His main tool is a recent construction by D. Gaitsgory, the so-called sheaf-theoretic construction of the center of an affine Hecke algebra [see Invent. Math. 144, No. 2, 253-280 (2001; Zbl 1072.14055)]. The author shows how this remarkable construction provides a geometric interpretation of the bijection, and allows to prove the conjecture.For the entire collection see [Zbl 1050.20001]. Reviewer: Chen Chengdong (Shanghai) Cited in 2 ReviewsCited in 22 Documents MSC: 20G05 Representation theory for linear algebraic groups 20F55 Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) 20C08 Hecke algebras and their representations 14M15 Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds 14F05 Sheaves, derived categories of sheaves, etc. (MSC2010) Keywords:tensor categories; two-sided cells; affine Weyl groups; unipotent conjugacy classes; simple complex algebraic groups PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{R. Bezrukavnikov}, Adv. Stud. Pure Math. 40, 69--90 (2004; Zbl 1078.20044) Full Text: arXiv