Relative Kazhdan Lusztig isomorphism for $GL_{2n}/Sp_{2n}$
Guy Shtotland
TL;DR
The paper develops a relative Kazhdan–Lusztig isomorphism for the symmetric pair $(GL_{2n},Sp_{2n})$, linking the affine Hecke algebra action on $S(X)^I$ with a relative dual K-theoretic/Langlands-dual framework via the variety $ ilde ext{L}$ and the relative Steinberg geometry. It establishes a suite of isomorphisms among $H_q$-modules, $K$-theory modules, and Borel–Moore homology, including $H^{BM}_{top}( ilde ext{L}) ensor sgn o b C[Backslash X]$ and $IM(K^{G^ ext{∨} imes b C^ imes}( ilde ext{L})) o M_q$, thereby enabling a geometric criterion for $X$-distinguished representations generated by $I$-fixed vectors. The work yields a concrete description of $I$-orbits on $X$, a cellular-fibration mechanism to reduce to Levi factors, and a fixed-point analysis that imposes necessary conditions on Deligne–Langlands parameters; in particular it recovers a parity condition on Zelevinsky parameters (even-length segments) for distinguished representations, via an alternative, geometry-driven route. It also discusses conjectural extensions to the Lusztig–Vogan framework in the relative/ hyperspherical setting and provides a sheaf-theoretic analysis of the distinguished representations, with explicit quiver-representation examples illustrating the approach.
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.
