Trace forms on the cyclotomic Hecke algebras and cocenters of the cyclotomic Schur algebras

Abstract: We define a unified trace form

a u

on the cyclotomic Hecke algebras

m a t h s c r H_{n, K}

of type

A

, which generalize both Malle-Mathas' trace form on the non-degenerate version (with Hecke parameter

x i e q 1

) and Brundan-Kleshchev's trace form on the degenerate version. We use seminormal basis theory to construct a pair of dual bases for

m a t h s c r H_{n, K}

with respect to the form. We also construct an explicit basis for the cocenter (i.e., the

0

th Hochschild homology) of the corresponding cyclotomic Schur algebra, which shows that the cocenter has dimension independent of the ground field

K

, the Hecke parameter

x i

and the cyclotomic parameters

Q_{1}, c d o t s, Q_{e} l l

.

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