Highest weight categories arising from Khovanov's diagram algebra. IV: The general linear supergroup (Q409042)

In the first three papers of the series the authors studied representation-theoretic properties of a special class of infinite dimensional diagram algebras inspired by and obtained via a limiting procedure from algebras used by Khovanov in his categorification of the Jones polynomial. In the paper under review all this hard work pays off in a spectacular application to the representation theory of the general linear supergroup. The main result of the paper proves that blocks of the general linear supergroup are Morita equivalent to these generalized Khovanov algebras. As an application one gets that blocks of the same atypicality are equivalent (this recovers a result by Serganova), that these blocks have a natural Koszul grading, that Kac modules are rigid (in the sense that they have a unique Loewy filtration) and many other interesting results. To compare the two categories the authors use categorification approach and essentially realize both categories as underlying categories for certain 2-representations of a 2-Kac-Moody algebra. Parts I--III, see Mosc. Math. J. 11, 685--722 (2011), \url{http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1532}; Transform. Groups 15, No. 1, 1--45 (2010; Zbl 1205.17010); Represent. Theory 15, 170--243 (2011; Zbl 1261.17006).