Injective Schur modules (Q2357071)

For partitions \(\lambda\) of \(a\), and \(\mu\) of \(b\), consider the usual Young subgroups \(\Sigma_{\lambda}\) and \(\Sigma_{\mu}\). One defines the signed permutation module \(M(\lambda | \mu)\) by \[ M(\lambda | \mu) = \mathrm{Ind}_{\Sigma_{\lambda} \times \Sigma_{\mu}}^{\Sigma_{a+b}} k \otimes \mathrm{sgn}. \] The first author defined signed Young modules to be the indecomposable summands of signed permutation modules; the notion generalizes those of Young modules and of twisted Young modules for the symmetric group. He had also classified the isomorphism classes of signed Young modules in [the first author, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 83, No. 3, 647--680 (2001; Zbl 1016.20028)]. In [J. Algebra 305, No. 1, 433--441 (2006; Zbl 1104.20014)], \textit{D. J. Hemmer} proved that irreducible Specht modules are signed Young modules. In the paper under review, the authors determine those partitions \(\lambda\) for which the corresponding Schur module \(\nabla(\lambda)\) is injective in the category of polynomial modules for \(\mathrm{GL}_n(F)\) for an infinite field \(F\). As the authors realize that the problem is not really more difficult for the quantum general linear group, they work in this generality. They express their results in terms of the representation theory of Hecke algebras at the parameter \(q\), and determine the partitions for which the corresponding Specht module is a Young module, when \(1+q \neq 0\). The classical case is already covered by Hemmer [loc. cit.]. An additional feature is that the set of partitions appearing in the authors' solution is that it allows a new characterization of Carter's condition on regular partitions.