We study the modular representations of finite groups of Lie type arising in the cohomology of certain quotients of Deligne-Lusztig varieties associated with Coxeter elements. These quotients are related to Gelfand-Graev representations and we present a conjecture on the Deligne-Lusztig restriction of Gelfand-Graev representations. We prove the conjecture for restriction to a Coxeter torus. We deduce a proof of Brouée’s conjecture on equivalences of derived categories arising from Deligne-Lusztig varieties, for a split group of type An and a Coxeter element. Our study is based on Lusztig’s work in characteristic 0 [Lu2].

In [BMR] we observed that, on the level of derived categories, representations of the Lie algebra of a semisimple algebraic group over a field of finite characteristic with a given (generalized) regular central character can be identified with coherent sheaves on the formal neighborhood of the corresponding (generalized) Springer fiber. In the present paper we treat singular central characters.

The basic step is the Beilinson-Bernstein localization of modules with a fixed (generalized) central character λ as sheaves on the partial flag variety corresponding to the singularity of λ. These sheaves are modules over a sheaf of algebras which is a version of twisted crystalline differential operators. We discuss translation functors and intertwining functors. The latter generate an action of the affine braid group on the derived category of modules with a regular (generalized) central character, which intertwines different localization functors. We also describe the standard duality on Lie algebra modules in terms of D-modules and coherent sheaves.

Let K be a local non-archimedian field, F = K((t)) and let G be a split semi-simple group. The purpose of this paper is to study certain analogs of spherical and Iwahori Hecke algebras for representations of the group G = G(F) and its central extension Ĝ. For instance our spherical Hecke algebra corresponds to the subgroup G (A) ⊂ G(F) where A ⊂ F is the subring OK((t)) where OK ⊂ K is the ring of integers. It turns out that for generic level (cf. [4]) the spherical Hecke algebra is trivial; however, on the critical level it is quite large. On the other hand we expect that the size of the corresponding Iwahori-Hecke algebra does not depend on a choice of a level (details will be considered in another publication).

We study some conjectures on the endomorphism algebras of the co-homology of Deligne-Lusztig varieties which are a refinement of those of [BMi].

We explain how A. Givental’s mirror symmetric family [14] to the type A ag variety and its proposed generalization [3] to partial ag varieties by Batyrev, Ciocan-Fontanine, Kim and van Straten relate to the Peterson variety Y ⊂ SLn/B. We then use this theory to describe the totally nonnegative part of Y, extending a result from [30].

Let Λ be the path algebra of a Dynkin quiver. A recent result of Bo Chen asserts that Hom(X; Y/X) = 0 for any Gabriel-Roiter inclusion X ⊆ Y. The aim of the present note is to give an interpretation of this result in terms of Hall polynomials, and to extend it in this way to representation-directed split algebras. We further show its relevance when dealing with arbitrary representation-finite split algebras.

An equivalence relation is defined and studied on the set of B-stable ideals in the nilradical of the Lie algebra of a Borel subgroup B. Techniques are developed to compute the equivalence relation and these are carried out in the exceptional groups. There is a natural partial order on equivalence classes coming from inclusion of one ideal in another. A main theorem is that this partial order is a refinement of the closure ordering on nilpotent orbits.