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Diagrammatics for real supergroups

Representation Theory 2025-06-13 v2

Abstract

We introduce two families of diagrammatic monoidal supercategories. The first family, depending on an associative superalgebra, generalizes the oriented Brauer category. The second, depending on an involutive superalgebra, generalizes the unoriented Brauer category. These two families of supercategories admit natural superfunctors to supercategories of supermodules over general linear supergroups and supergroups preserving superhermitian forms, respectively. We show that these superfunctors are full when the superalgebra is a central real division superalgebra. As a consequence, we obtain first fundamental theorems of invariant theory for all real forms of the general linear, orthosymplectic, periplectic, and isomeric supergroups. We also deduce equivalences between monoidal supercategories of tensor supermodules over the real forms of a complex supergroup.

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@article{arxiv.2301.01414,
  title  = {Diagrammatics for real supergroups},
  author = {Saima Samchuck-Schnarch and Alistair Savage},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.01414},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

62 pages; v2: published version with some typos corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-28T08:01:54.341Z