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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].
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Ginzburg, V., Gordon, I. & Stafford, J.T. Differential operators and Cherednik algebras. Sel. math., New ser. 14, 629–666 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00029-009-0515-z
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