Polynomial functors and categorifications of Fock space. II (Q1946796)

In this extensive and dense paper, the authors categorify various Fock space representations via the category of polynomial functors. To do this, they continue a previous study by themselves in which they used polynomial functors to categorify the Fock space representations of type A affine Lie algebras. Indeed, they firstly categorify the Fock space representation of the Heisenberg algebra on the category of polynomial functors. Secondly, they construct commuting actions of the affine Lie algebra and the level \(p\) action of the Heisenberg algebra on the (derived) category of polynomial functors over a field of characteristic \( p > 0\), thus weakly categorifying the Fock space representation of \(\widehat{\mathfrak{gl}_p}\) and they study the relationship between these categorizations and Schur-Weyl duality. This duality is formulated as a functor from the category of polynomial functors to the category of linear species (this last one is known to carry actions of the Kac-Moody algebra and the Heisenberg algebra). Finally, they prove that Schur-Weyl duality is a morphism of these categorification structures. For Part I, see [Algebr. Represent. Theory 16, No. 5, 1273--1311 (2013; Zbl 1285.18009)].