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Simple supermodules over Lie superalgebras

Representation Theory 2018-02-09 v2

Abstract

We show that, for many Lie superalgebras admitting a compatible Z\mathbb{Z}-grading, Kac induction functor gives rise to a bijection between simple supermodules over a Lie superalgebra and simple supermodules over the even part of this Lie superalgebra. This reduces the classification problem for the former to the one for the latter. Our result applies to all classical Lie superalgebra of type II, in particular, to the general linear Lie superalgebra \gl(mn)\gl(m|n). In the latter case we also show that the rough structure of simple \gl(mn)\gl(m|n)-supermodules and also that of Kac supermodules depends only on the annihilator of the \mfgl(m)\mfgl(n)\mf{gl}(m)\oplus \mf{gl}(n)-input and hence can be computed using the combinatorics of BGG category O\mathcal{O}.

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@article{arxiv.1801.00654,
  title  = {Simple supermodules over Lie superalgebras},
  author = {Chih-Whi Chen and Volodymyr Mazorchuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.00654},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

v2: a few typos from v1 fixed

R2 v1 2026-06-22T23:34:24.640Z