Picard-Lefschetz oscillators for the Drinfeld-Lafforgue compactification
Presenter
November 20, 2014
Keywords:
- Eisenstein series
- Drinfeld-Lafforgue compactification
- pseudo-identity
- miraculous space
- vanishing cycles
MSC:
- 14D20
- 14D15
- 14D06
- 14Dxx
- 14-xx
- 14D21
- 11M36
- 11Mxx
Abstract
This talk will report on the work of Simon Schieder, a graduate student at Harvard.
Let X be a smooth projective curve and G a reductive group. We consider the moduli stack Bun_G that classifies G-bundles on X. The diagonal morphism Bun_G->Bun_G\times Bun_G admits a canonical compactification, which is a tool to handle problems that are caused by the fact that Bun_G has "horns".
Let us denote this compactification by \bar{Bun}_G. In this talk we will be interested in the intersection cohomology sheaf of \bar{Bun}_G, and some related questions. We will see that what encodes the answer to such questions is the phenomenon of "Picard-Lefschetz oscillators".