A positivity conjecture for the Alvis-Curtis dual of the intersection   cohomology of a Deligne-Lusztig variety
  We formulate a strong positivity conjecture on characters afforded by the Alvis-Curtis dual of the intersection cohomology of Deligne-Lusztig varieties. This conjecture provides a powerful tool to determine decomposition numbers of unipotent $\ell$-blocks of finite reductive groups. 
Olivier Dudas, Gunter Malle
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