Affiliation: | Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 D. Gaitsgory ; Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 K. Vilonen ; Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 |
Abstract: | Let be a smooth, complete, geometrically connected curve over a field of characteristic . The geometric Langlands conjecture states that to each irreducible rank local system on one can attach a perverse sheaf on the moduli stack of rank bundles on (irreducible on each connected component), which is a Hecke eigensheaf with respect to . In this paper we derive the geometric Langlands conjecture from a certain vanishing conjecture. Furthermore, using recent results of Lafforgue, we prove this vanishing conjecture, and hence the geometric Langlands conjecture, in the case when the ground field is finite. |