Character sheaves for classical symmetric pairs

Vilonen, Kari; Xue, Ting

doi:10.1090/ert/622

Character sheaves for classical symmetric pairs
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by Kari Vilonen and Ting Xue; with Appendix B by Dennis Stanton

Represent. Theory 26 (2022), 1097-1144

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/ert/622

Published electronically: October 17, 2022

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Abstract:

We establish a Springer theory for classical symmetric pairs. We give an explicit description of character sheaves in this setting. In particular we determine the cuspidal character sheaves.

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