Motivic Mirror Symmetry for Character Stacks

Abstract

We propose a motivic version of T. Hausel and M. Thaddeus' Topological Mirror Symmetry for character stacks associated with arbitrary semisimple groups, which is an analogue of F. Loeser and D. Wyss' result for Chow motives of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles. As first steps towards it, we generalize A. Mellit's cell decomposition to arbitrary connected and reductive groups. We use it to describe all automorphisms on the associated character stacks. Then we show that the Weil pairing induces a duality between cells that interchanges automorphisms by connected components. As a toy example, we show that these results imply our conjecture for the special linear group of rank two.