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I will talk about a family of measures on partitions (specifically, a case of Okounkov's Schur measures) which are in one-to-one correspondence with models of random unitary matrices and lattice fermions. Under these measures, as the expected size of a partition goes to infinity, the first part of a random partition generically exhibits the same universal asymptotic fluctuations as the largest eigenvalue of a GUE random Hermitian matrix. First, I'll describe how we can tune these measures to exhibit new edge fluctuations at a smaller scale, which naturally generalise the GUE edge behaviour. These new fluctuations are universal, having previously been found for trapped fermions, and when a measure is tuned to have them, the corresponding unitary matrix model is "multicritical". Then, I'll describe how our measures can escape these more general universality classes, when tuned to have several cuts in a certain "Fermi sea". In this case, the breakdown in universality arises from an oscillation phenomenon previously observed in multi-cut Hermitian matrix models. Moreover, we have a one-to-one correspondence with multi-cut unitary matrix models. This is partly based on joint work with Dan Betea and Jérémie Bouttier.
I will talk about several results on Hecke algebras attached to Bernstein blocks of (arbitrary) reductive p-adic groups, where we construct a local Langlands correspondence for these Bernstein blocks. Our techniques draw inspirations from the foundational works of Deligne, Kazhdan and Lusztig.
As an application, we prove the Local Langlands Conjecture for G_2, which is the first known case in literature of LLC for exceptional groups. Our correspondence satisfies an expected property on cuspidal support, which is compatible with the generalized Springer correspondence, along with a list of characterizing properties including the stabilization of character sums, formal degree property etc. In particular, we obtain (not necessarily unipotent) "mixed" L-packets containing "F-singular" supercuspidals and non-supercuspidals. Such "mixed" L-packets had been elusive up until this point and very little was known prior to our work. I will give explicit examples of such mixed L-packets in terms of Deligne-Lusztig theory and Kazhdan-Lusztig parametrization.
If time permits, I will explain how to pin down certain choices in the construction of the correspondence using stability of L-packets; one key input is a homogeneity result due to Waldspurger and DeBacker. Moreover, I will mention how to adapt our general strategy to construct explicit LLC for other reductive groups, such as GSp(4), Sp(4), etc. Such explicit description of the L-packets has been useful in number-theoretic applications, e.g. modularity lifting questions as in the recent work of Whitmore.
Some parts of this talk are based on my joint work with Aubert, and some other parts are based on my joint work with Suzuki.
We invite applications for two Postdoctoral Research Associates to join the Mathematical Physics research group based at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. These posts are funded by the Royal Society through the project “Quantum perturbation theory at large orders” of Dr Erik Panzer (grant RF\ERE\201473). Two posts are available, with an end date 30 September 2025, and flexible starting dates between 01 February 2024 and 01 October 2024.