The blocks of the periplectic Brauer algebra in positive characteristic (Q2312862)

From the introduction: The periplectic Brauer algebra belongs to a class of algebras which can be represented using diagrams was first introduced by \textit{D. Moon} [Commun. Algebra 31, No. 5, 2095--2140 (2003; Zbl 1022.17005)] to study the periplectic Lie superalgebra. Whereas the representation theory of the Brauer algebra has already been developed for a long time, the representation theory of the periplectic Brauer algebra has only been studied recently, in particular the simple modules have been classified for arbitrary characteristic and for characteristic zero (or large characteristic) a classification of the blocks and a complete description of the decomposition multiplicities have been obtained. Calculating the decomposition multiplicities of the (periplectic) Brauer algebra in positive characteristic is an important open problem. Since this is related to the long-standing open problem of the decomposition multiplicities of the symmetric group, a solution to this problem seems currently not within reach. Instead, as a first step, the authors obtain in this paper a complete classification of the blocks of the periplectic Brauer algebra in all (odd) positive characteristic. This paper is structured as follows. In Section 2 we introduce the periplectic Brauer algebra. The periplectic Brauer algebra fails to be cellular, but it still satisfies the weaker notion of a standardly based algebra. In Section 3, we recall the definitions and properties of standardly based algebras needed in this paper. They also review the relevant partition combinatorics and representation theory of the symmetric group algebra in Section 4. In Section 5 they combine all this information to obtain a standard basis of the periplectic Brauer algebra and an explicit description of the standard modules. Using localisation and globalisation functors in Section 6, the authors obtain a full embedding of the module category \(A_n\)-mod into \(A_{n+2}\)-mod. This can then be used for induction arguments. In particular, using the results of Sections 5 and 6 they prove a BGG-reciprocity for the periplectic Brauer algebra in arbitrary characteristic in Section 7. Finally, they obtain a complete description of the blocks of the periplectic Brauer algebra in any characteristic \(p\ne 2\) in Section 8.