Harish-Chandra D-modules for bi-Whittaker reduction

TL;DR

This paper introduces Harish-Chandra modules for bi-Whittaker reduction of differential operators on complex reductive groups, exploring their torsion properties and geometric aspects related to the universal centralizer.

Contribution

It defines admissible bi-Whittaker modules and studies their torsion properties, connecting algebraic, geometric, and representation-theoretic perspectives.

Findings

Torsion properties of modules are analyzed via universal centralizer geometry.

For regular infinitesimal characters, modules extend irregular connections on Bruhat cells.

Ring-theoretic properties of the completed bi-Whittaker algebra are established.

Abstract

Let $D(G)$ be the algebra of algebraic differential operators on a complex reductive group $G$. Denote by $\mathbb{W}$ the bi-Whittaker quantum Hamiltonian reduction of $D(G)$, also known as the quantum Toda lattice. In this article we define the admissible $\mathbb{W}$-modules and the special case of Harish-Chandra modules, the latter being bi-Whittaker variants of the invariant holonomic systems of Hotta-Kashiwara. We then study their torsion properties up to completion relative to the Kazhdan filtration, which in general is unbounded in both directions, through the geometry of universal centralizer. In the case of regular infinitesimal characters, the corresponding $D(G)$-module is shown to be the minimal extension of an irregular connection on the open Bruhat cell. Certain ring-theoretic properties of the completion of $\mathbb{W}$ are also obtained.