Irreducibility of induced supermodules for general linear supergroups

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Abstract: In this note we determine when is an induced module H^0_G(lambda), corresponding to a dominant integral highest weight lambda of the general linear supergroup G=GL(m|n) irreducible. Using the contravariant duality given by the supertrace we obtain a characterization of irreducibility of Weyl modules V(lambda). This extends the result of Kac who proved that, for ground fields of characteristic zero, V(lambda) is irreducible if and only if lambda is typical.


Let \(k\) a field of characteristic different from 2 and \(\mathrm{GL}(m| n)\) the general supergroup with even part \(G_{\text{ev}}\). Denote by \(B\) the Borel supergroup of \(G\) corresponding to lower triangular matrices. Let \(\lambda=(\lambda_1^+,\ldots, \lambda_m^+\mid \lambda_1^-,\ldots,\lambda_n^- )\) be a dominant integral weight of \(G\) and \(K_{\lambda}\) the one-dimensional even \(B\)-supermodule associated with \(\lambda\). The last one induces \(G\)-supermodule. \(H^0_G(K_{\lambda})\). Similarly \(H_{G_{\text{ev}}}^0(K_{\lambda})\) is the \(G_{\text{ev}}\)-supermodule induced from \(B\cap G_{\text{ev}}\)-supermodule \(K_{\lambda}\). The weight \(\lambda\) is typical if none of numbers \(\lambda^++\lambda_j^-+m+1-i-j\) is a multiple of the characteristic of \(k\). The main results of the paper states that \(H_G^0(K_{\lambda})\) is irreducible if and only if \(H_{G_{\text{ev}}}^0(K_{\lambda})\) is irreducible and \(\lambda\) is typical. As a corollary it is shown that the Weyl supermodule \(V_G(\lambda)\) is irreducible if and only if \(V_{g_{\text{ev}}}(\lambda)\) is irreducible and \(\lambda\) is typical. Moreover the Kac supermodule \(K_G(\lambda)\) is irreducible if and only if\(\lambda\) is typical. These results in the case of characteristic zero were obtained by V. Kac in 1977--1978.











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