Quantum Schur superalgebras and Kazhdan-Lusztig combinatorics. (Q640933)

The paper investigates quantum Schur superalgebras in the context of Hecke algebras and Kazhdan-Lusztig combinatorics. The authors begin with a definition of a quantum Schur superalgebra as the endomorphism superalgebra of certain signed \(q\)-permutation modules for Hecke algebras of type \(A\). Such algebras share some fundamental properties with \(q\)-Schur algebras, such as the base change property, the existence of canonical \(\mathbb Z[v,v^{-1}]\)-bases, the duality relation with Manin's quantum matrix superalgebra \(\mathcal A(m|n)\) and the bridging role between quantum enveloping superalgebras of \(\mathfrak{gl}(m|n)\) and the Hecke algebras of type \(A\). By introducing standard and canonical bases, the authors establish a cell theory for the superalgebras. In this way a super-version of the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence is developed to determine the cell decomposition and the classification of all (ordinary) irreducible representations over \(\mathbb Q(v)\) via the super-cell modules.