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Almost-commuting variety, D-modules, and Cherednik algebras
Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA E-mail address: wlgan{at}math.mit.edu
Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago Chicago, IL 60637, USA E-mail address: ginzburg{at}math.uchicago.edu (with an Appendix by Victor Ginzburg)
We study a scheme
closely related to the set of pairs of nxn matrices with rank-1 commutator. We show that
is a reduced complete intersection with n + 1 irreducible components, which we describe. There is a distinguished Lagrangian subvariety
nil
. We introduce a category C of D-modules whose characteristic variety is contained in
nil. Simple objects of that category are analogous to Lusztig's character sheaves. We construct an exact functor of quantum Hamiltonian reduction from our category C to the category O for type-A rational Cherednik algebra.