Poles of intertwining operators in terms of irreducible components of Lusztig's characteristic variety in type A

In this paper, we propose a conjectural formula for the order of the poles of intertwining operators in the context of the representation theory of general linear groups over p-adic fields. More specifically, we conjecturally relate the order of the pole to the dimension of a Hom-space associated with irreducible components of Lusztig's characteristic variety in type A. We verify the conjecture in a wide range of cases.