An invariant supertrace for the category of representations of Lie superalgebras of type I

DOI10.2140/PJM.2008.238.331zbMATH Open1210.17010arXiv0711.4231OpenAlexW1539829723MaRDI QIDQ953158FDOQ953158

Authors: Nathan Geer, Bertrand Patureau-Mirand 

Publication date: 14 November 2008

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we give a re-normalization of the supertrace on the category of representations of Lie superalgebras of type I, by a kind of modified superdimension. The genuine superdimensions and supertraces are generically zero. However, these modified superdimensions are non-zero and lead to a kind of supertrace which is non-trivial and invariant. As an application we show that this new supertrace gives rise to a non-zero bilinear form on a space of invariant tensors of a Lie superalgebra of type I. The results of this paper are completely classical results in the theory of Lie superalgebras but surprisingly we can not prove them without using quantum algebra and low-dimensional topology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.4231

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum grouptraceknotLie superalgebratensor category

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37)

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