A new Fourier transform
Abstract
In order to define a geometric Fourier transform, one usually works with either $\ell$-adic sheaves in characteristic $p>0$ or with $D$-modules in characteristic 0. If one considers $\ell$-adic sheaves on the stack quotient of a vector bundle $V$ by the homothety action of $\mathbb{G}_m$, however, Laumon provides a uniform geometric construction of the Fourier transform in any characteristic. The category of sheaves on $[V/\mathbb{G}_m]$ is closely related to the category of (unipotently) monodromic sheaves on $V$. In this article, we introduce a new functor, which is defined on all sheaves on $V$ in any characteristic, and we show that it restricts to an equivalence on monodromic sheaves. We also discuss the relation between this new functor and Laumon's homogeneous transform, the Fourier-Deligne transform, and the usual Fourier transform on $D$-modules (when the latter are defined).
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- February 2014
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1402.5555
- Bibcode:
- 2014arXiv1402.5555W
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Algebraic Geometry;
- Mathematics - Representation Theory
- E-Print:
- 13 pages