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The nil-Brauer category

Representation Theory 2025-05-29 v3 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We introduce the nil-Brauer category and prove a basis theorem for its morphism spaces. This basis theorem is an essential ingredient required to prove that nil-Brauer categorifies the split iquantum group of rank one. As this iquantum group is a basic building block for ı\imath-quantum groups of higher rank, we expect that the nil-Brauer category will play a role in future developments related to the categorification of quantum symmetric pairs.

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@article{arxiv.2305.03876,
  title  = {The nil-Brauer category},
  author = {Jonathan Brundan and Weiqiang Wang and Ben Webster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.03876},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v3: this revision corrects a sign error in the formula (4.2) in the published text

R2 v1 2026-06-28T10:27:26.700Z