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We prove that the category of equivariant perverse sheaves on the affine Grassmannian of PGL(2, R) is highest weight and we construct the projective objects. Moreover we prove that the category of perverse sheaves on the odd component is equivalent to the principal block of Lusztig's quantum SL(2) at a primitive fourth root of unity.
We study the equivariant cohomology of spherical perverse sheaves on the affine Grassmannian of a connected reductive group $G$ with support in the affine Grassmannian of any Levi subgroup $L$ of $G$. In doing so, we extend the work of Ginzburg and Riche on the $T$-equivariant cofibers of spherical perverse sheaves. We obtain a description of this cohomology in terms of the Langlands dual group $\check{G}$. More precisely, we identify the cohomology of the regular sheaf on $\mathrm{Gr}_G$ with support along $\mathrm{Gr}_L$ with the algebra of functions on a hyperspherical Hamiltonian $\check{G}$-variety $T^*(\check{G}/(\check{U}, ψ_L))$, where the $\textit{Whittaker datum}$ $ψ_L$ is an additive character (determined by $L$) of the maximal unipotent subgroup $\check{U}$.
We establish a derived geometric Satake equivalence for the quaternionic general linear group GL_n(H). By applying the real-symmetric correspondence for affine Grassmannians, we obtain a derived geometric Satake equivalence for the symmetric variety GL_2n/Sp_2n. We explain how these equivalences fit into the general framework of a geometric Langlands correspondence for real groups and the relative Langlands duality conjecture. As an application, we compute the stalks of the IC-complexes for spherical orbit closures in the quaternionic affine Grassmannian and the loop space of GL_2n/Sp_2n. We show the stalks are given by the Kostka-Foulkes polynomials for GL_n but with all degrees doubled.
The Bagger-Witten line bundle is a line bundle over moduli spaces of two-dimensional SCFTs, related to the Hodge line bundle of holomorphic top-forms on Calabi-Yau manifolds. It has recently been a subject of a number of conjectures, but concrete examples have proven elusive. In this paper we collect several results on this structure, including a proposal for an intrinsic geometric definition over moduli spaces of Calabi-Yau manifolds and some additional concrete examples. We also conjecture a new criterion for UV completion of four-dimensional supergravity theories in terms of properties of the Bagger-Witten line bundle.
In this note we initiate a program to obtain global descriptions of Calabi-Yau moduli spaces, to calculate their Picard group, and to identify within that group the Hodge line bundle, and the closely-related Bagger-Witten line bundle. We do this here for several Calabi-Yau's obtained in [DW09] as crepant resolutions of the orbifold quotient of the product of three elliptic curves. In particular we verify in these cases a recent claim of [GHKSST16] by noting that a power of the Hodge line bundle is trivial -- even though in most of these cases the Picard group is infinite.