Note on some properties of generalized affine Grassmannian slices

Abstract

Braverman, Finkelberg and Nakajima introduced the generalized affine Grassmannian slices $\overline{\mathcal W}^{\lambda}_{\mu}$ and showed that they are Coulomb branches of $3d$ $\mathcal N=4$ gauge theories. We prove a conjecture of theirs that a transversal slice of $\mathcal W^{\nu}_{\mu}$ in $\overline{\mathcal W}^{\lambda}_{\mu}$ is isomorphic to $\overline{\mathcal W}^{\lambda}_{\nu}$. In addition, they conjecture that Coulomb branches of $3d$ $\mathcal N=4$ gauge theories have symplectic singularities, and we confirm this conjecture for generalized affine Grassmannian slices $\overline{\mathcal W}^{\lambda}_{\mu}$. Along the way we give a new proof of the smoothness of $\mathcal W^{\nu}_{\mu}$, which has been previously proven by Muthiah and Weekes using different method.