Towers of graded superalgebras categorify the twisted Heisenberg double. (Q2349345)

Given a Hopf algebra \(H\) one can construct a Heisenberg dual which is an associative algebra isomorphic as a vector space to a tensor product of \(H\) and its dual over the base ring. The multiplication is defined in a natural way such that \(H\) and its dual are subalgebras. The Heisenberg dual has a natural representation on \(H\), called the Fock space representation. In [\textit{A. Savage} and \textit{O. Yacobi}, J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 129, 19-56 (2015; Zbl 1302.05204)] there was developed a categorification of the Heisenberg dual. In this approach the dual Hopf algebras correspond to the Grothendieck groups of the categories of finitely-generated modules. The key role is played by a construction of dual Hopf algebras from towers of algebras. In the present paper these results are generalized when towers of algebras are replaced by towers of graded superalgebras. As the authors say: ``Since graded algebras and superalgebras are both ubiquitous in the categorification literature, the extension to this setting is a natural one''. This generalization results in the move from Hopf algebras to twisted Hopf algebras, and from the Heisenberg double to the twisted Heisenberg double. The main result is a categorification of the twisted Heisenberg double.