Schur-Weyl duality for higher levels (Q1030512)

The classical Schur-Weyl duality relates certain representations of \(GL_n\) to representations of the symmetric group \(S_k\). In the very interesting paper under review the authors propose a level \(l\) extension of this duality, in which the symmetric group gets replaced by the degenerate cyclotomic Hecke algebra (over complex numbers) parameterized by a dominant weight of level \(l\) for the root system of type \(A_{\infty}\). The original Schur-Weyl duality is recovered in the case \(l=1\). This is the first main result. The second main result is an application of the above to parabolic analogues of the BGG category \(\mathcal{O}\). The authors show that the endomorphism algebra of a certain (not basic!) projective module \(P\) in the parabolic category \(\mathcal{O}\) is isomorphic to the image of the degenerate cyclotomic Hecke algebra in the Schur-Weyl duality bimodule. As a consequence, the Serre subcategory generated by \(P\) is shown to be equivalent to the category of finite dimensional modules over a degenerate analogue of the cyclotomic \(q\)-Schur algebra of Dipper, James and Mathas.