Irreducibility results for equivariant $\mathcal{D}$-modules on rigid analytic spaces
Konstantin Ardakov, Tobias Schmidt
TL;DR
The paper develops a robust geometric framework for irreducibility of equivariant D-modules on rigid analytic spaces and applies it to locally analytic representations. It introduces and analyzes induction, duality, and side-changing functors, proving that under suitable geometric and homological hypotheses, induced modules are simple and often self-dual. By leveraging Beilinson–Bernstein localisation, analytification, and the Orlik–Strauch correspondence, the authors produce geometric proofs of irreducibility for a broad class of locally analytic representations, including Schubert-variety–derived objects in both projective and full flag settings. The results unify representations-theoretic constructions with rigid-analytic D-module techniques, enabling new irreducibility criteria that extend beyond split groups to non-split cases and arbitrary primes, with significant implications for geometric representation theory in the p-adic setting.
Abstract
We prove a general irreducibility result for geometrically induced coadmissible equivariant $\mathcal{D}$-modules on rigid analytic spaces. As an application, we geometrically reprove the irreducibility of certain locally analytic representations previously constructed by Orlik-Strauch.
