Parabolic induction and the Harish-Chandra D-module

Victor Ginzburg

Published 2021-03-25Version 1

Let G be a reductive group and L a Levi subgroup. Parabolic induction and restriction are a pair of adjoint functors between Ad-equivariant derived categories of either constructible sheaves or (not necessarily holonomic) D-modules on G and L, respectively. Bezrukavnikov and Yom Din proved, generalizing a classic result of Lusztig, that these functors are exact. In this paper, we consider a special case where L=T is a maximal torus. We give explicit formulas for parabolic induction and restriction in terms of the Harish-Chandra module D-module on G x T. We show that this module is flat over D(T), which easily implies that parabolic induction and restriction are exact functors between the corresponding abelian categories of D-modules.