Relative Kazhdan Lusztig isomorphism for $GL_{2n}/Sp_{2n}$

Abstract

The Kazhdan Lusztig isomorphism, relating the affine Hecke algebra of a $p$-adic group to the equivariant $K$ theory of the Steinberg variety of its Langlands dual, played a key role in the proof of the Deligne Langlands conjectures concerning the classification of smooth irreducible representations with an Iwahori fixed vector. In this work we state and prove a relative version of the Kazhdan Lusztig isomorphism for the symmetric pair $(GL_{2n},Sp_{2n})$. The relative isomorphism is an isomorphism between the module of compactly supported Iwahori invariant functions on $X=GL_{2n}/Sp_{2n}$ and another module over the affine Hecke algebra constructed using equivariant $K$ theory and the relative Langlands duality. We use this isomorphism to give a new proof of a condition on $X$ distinguished representations.