ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE AFFINE ASYMPTOTIC HECKE ALGEBRAS

According to a conjecture of Lusztig, the asymptotic affine Hecke algebra should admit a description in terms of the Grothedieck group of sheaves on the square of a finite set equivariant under the action of the centralizer of a nilpotent element in the reductive group. A weaker form of this statement, allowing for possible central extensions of stabilizers of that action, has been proved by the first named author with Ostrik. In the present paper, we describe an example showing that nontrivial central extensions do arise, thus the above weaker statement is optimal.