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Superalgebra deformations of web categories: Affine and cyclotomic webs

Representation Theory 2025-11-27 v1

Abstract

Let k\mathbb{k} be a characteristic zero domain. We define and study a diagrammatic monoidal k\mathbb{k}-linear supercategory WebAaff\mathbf{Web}^{aff}_{A} associated to any locally unital Frobenius k\mathbb{k}-superalgebra AA. This category can be viewed variously as an affinization of the finite web category WebA\mathbf{Web}_{A} previously defined by the authors and Zhu, as a thickening of the degenerate affine wreath product algebras defined by Savage, or as a Frobenius deformation of affine web categories defined by Song and Wang. We show that there is an asymptotically faithful family of functors from WebAaff\mathbf{Web}^{aff}_{A} to the monoidal supercategory of endofunctors of gln(A)\mathfrak{gl}_n(A)-modules for every n1n \geq 1, and use this to establish a basis of `decorated double coset diagrams' for morphism spaces in WebAaff\mathbf{Web}^{aff}_{A}. We also define and establish basis results for the cyclotomic quotient category WebAΛ\mathbf{Web}^{\Lambda}_{A} associated with a cyclotomic datum Λ\Lambda.

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@article{arxiv.2511.21671,
  title  = {Superalgebra deformations of web categories: Affine and cyclotomic webs},
  author = {Nicholas Davidson and Jonathan R. Kujawa and Robert Muth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.21671},
  year   = {2025}
}