Abstract: The metaplectic geometric Langlands program can be understood in two ways: as a twisted analogue of the geometric Langlands program, and as a geometric analogue of the Langlands program for covering groups, namely the metaplectic Langlands program. One of the key structures in the geometric Langlands program is the spectral action, which roughly says that the spectral side acts on the automorphic side, allowing one to spectrally decompose the automorphic category over the moduli of \check{G}-local systems. This can be viewed as a geometric incarnation of the automorphic-to-Galois direction.

One may hope that the spectral action carries over to the metaplectic setting, and this expectation was formulated by Gaitsgory and Lysenko under the name “metaplectic vanishing conjecture.” In this talk, I will discuss my recent work on constructing the spectral action in the Betti metaplectic context. I will focus on what changes in the metaplectic setting and on the categorical framework for studying factorizable actions of local systems of symmetric monoidal categories.

Geometric Representation Theory Seminar:  [11]https://sites.google.com/view/yale-grt-seminar/home [11]