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On classical tensor categories attached to the irreducible representations of the General Linear Supergroups $GL(n\vert n)$

Representation Theory 2023-05-16 v6 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the quotient of Tn=Rep(GL(nn))\mathcal{T}_n = Rep(GL(n|n)) by the tensor ideal of negligible morphisms. If we consider the full subcategory Tn+\mathcal{T}_n^+ of Tn\mathcal{T}_n of indecomposable summands in iterated tensor products of irreducible representations up to parity shifts, its quotient is a semisimple tannakian category Rep(Hn)Rep(H_n) where HnH_n is a pro-reductive algebraic group. We determine the connected derived subgroup GnHnG_n \subset H_n and the groups Gλ=(Hλ0)derG_{\lambda} = (H_{\lambda}^0)_{der} corresponding to the tannakian subcategory in Rep(Hn)Rep(H_n) generated by an irreducible representation L(λ)L(\lambda). This gives structural information about the tensor category Rep(GL(nn))Rep(GL(n|n)), including the decomposition law of a tensor product of irreducible representations up to summands of superdimension zero. Some results are conditional on a hypothesis on 22-torsion in π0(Hn)\pi_0(H_n).

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@article{arxiv.1805.00384,
  title  = {On classical tensor categories attached to the irreducible representations of the General Linear Supergroups $GL(n\vert n)$},
  author = {Thorsten Heidersdorf and Rainer Weissauer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.00384},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

v6: changes in Section 11.7 and 11.8. v5: Replaced former lemma A.7 with Theorem B.3 in the new appendix B. v4: We proved a conjecture on determinants from an earlier version of the paper. This allowed us to extend the results on the groups $H_n$ considerably. v3: Minor changes. v2: Minor changes: Removed typos, added Corollaries 5.12, 5.13, 5.14