The degenerate Heisenberg category and its Grothendieck ring

Abstract: The degenerate Heisenberg category

m a t h c a l H e i s_{k}

is a strict monoidal category which was originally introduced in the special case

k = - 1

by Khovanov in 2010. Khovanov conjectured that the Grothendieck ring of the additive Karoubi envelope of his category is isomorphic to a certain

m a t h b b Z

-form for the universal enveloping algebra of the infinite-dimensional Heisenberg Lie algebra specialized at central charge

- 1

. We prove this conjecture and extend it to arbitrary central charge

k i n m a t h b b Z

. We also explain how to categorify the comultiplication (generically).

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