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Modular representations in type A with a two-row nilpotent central character

Representation Theory 2022-10-07 v3

Abstract

We study the category of representations of slm+2n\mathfrak{sl}_{m+2n} in positive characteristic, whose p-character is a nilpotent whose Jordan type is the two-row partition (m+n,n). In a previous paper with Anno, we used Bezrukavnikov-Mirkovic-Rumynin's theory of positive characteristic localization and exotic t-structures to give a geometric parametrization of the simples using annular crossingless matchings. Building on this, here we give combinatorial dimension formulae for the simple objects, and compute the Jordan-Holder multiplicities of the simples inside the baby Vermas (in special case where n=1, i.e. that a subregular nilpotent, these were known from work of Jantzen). We use Cautis-Kamnitzer's geometric categorification of the tangle calculus to study the images of the simple objects under the [BMR] equivalence. The dimension formulae may be viewed as a positive characteristic analogue of the combinatorial character formulae for simple objects in parabolic category O for slm+2n\mathfrak{sl}_{m+2n}, due to Lascoux and Schutzenberger.

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@article{arxiv.1710.08754,
  title  = {Modular representations in type A with a two-row nilpotent central character},
  author = {Galyna Dobrovolska and Vinoth Nandakumar and David Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.08754},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Revised version, examples added

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