Towards derived Satake equivalence for symmetric varieties

In an ongoing project of D. Ben-Zvi, Y. Sakellaridis and A. Venkatesh, the authors propose a conjectural generalization of the derived Satake equivalence for complex reductive groups to spherical varieties. I will describe a program aimed at establishing their conjecture in the case of symmetric varieties (an important class of spherical varieties). A key ingredient is the relation between the derived Satake equivalence for symmetric varieties and the geometric Langlands for real reductive groups.

This is joint work with David Nadler.

Affiliation

University of Minnesota; Member, School of Mathematics