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Title:
Modular perverse sheaves on symplectic singularities

Speaker:
Tom Braden

Abstract:
A symplectic singularity has a natural stratification by Poisson leaves, which are symplectic, hence even-dimensional.  Perverse sheaves constructible with respect to this stratification are semisimple if the coefficients are in characteristic zero, but with characteristic p coefficients the categories can be complicated.  I will discuss two cases where this category has been understood.  For the nilpotent cone of GL(n)GL(n), Mautner showed that perverse sheaves are equivalent to representations of a Schur algebra S(n,n)S(n,n), which is a highest weight category and is its own Ringel dual.  In joint work with Mautner, we showed that perverse sheaves on an affine hypertoric variety form a highest weight category which is Ringel dual to the same category for the symplectic dual hypertoric variety.  Time permitting, I will discuss what might be true for other symplectic singularities.

Link:
https://www.ias.edu/video/modular-perverse-sheaves-symplectic-singularities