Differential operators and Cherednik algebras

Abstract

We establish a link between two geometric approaches to the representation theory of rational Cherednik algebras of type A: one based on a noncommutative Proj construction [GS1]; the other involving quantum hamiltonian reduction of an algebra of differential operators [GG]. In this paper, we combine these two points of view by showing that the process of hamiltonian reduction intertwines a naturally defined geometric twist functor on $${\fancyscript {D}}$$ -modules with the shift functor for the Cherednik algebra. That enables us to give a direct and relatively short proof of the key result [GS1, Theorem 1.4] without recourse to Haiman’s deep results on the n! theorem [Ha1]. We also show that the characteristic cycles defined independently in these two approaches are equal, thereby confirming a conjecture from [GG].