Current superalgebras and unitary representations

In this paper we determine the projective unitary representations of finite dimensional Lie supergroups whose underlying Lie superalgebra is $\mathfrak{g}=A?\mathfrak{k}$, where $\mathfrak{k}$ is a compact simple Lie superalgebra and A is a supercommutative associative (super)algebra; the crucial case is when $A={\mathrm{\Lambda }}_s(\mathbb{R})$ is a Graßmann algebra. Since we are interested in projective representations, the first step consists in determining the cocycles defining the corresponding central extensions. Our second main result asserts that, if $\mathfrak{k}$ is a simple compact Lie superalgebra with ${\mathfrak{k}}_1\ne \{0\}$, then each (projective) unitary representation of ${\mathrm{\Lambda }}_s(\mathbb{R})?\mathfrak{k}$ factors through a (projective) unitary representation of $\mathfrak{k}$ itself, and these are known by Jakobsen's classification. If ${\mathfrak{k}}_1=\{0\}$, then we likewise reduce the classification problem to semidirect products of compact Lie groups K with a Clifford–Lie supergroup which has been studied by Carmeli, Cassinelli, Toigo and Varadarajan.     

Tight closure of parameter ideals in local rings F-rational on the punctured spectrum

Let $(R,\mathfrak{m},k)$ be an equidimensional excellent local ring of characteristic $p>0$. The aim of this paper is to show that ${?}_R({\mathfrak{q}}^{?}/\mathfrak{q})$ does not depend on the choice of parameter ideal $\mathfrak{q}$ provided R is an F-injective local ring that is F-rational on the punctured spectrum.     

Vust's Theorem and higher level Schur–Weyl duality for types B, C and D

Let G be a complex linear algebraic group, $\mathfrak{g}=\mathrm{Lie}(G)$ its Lie algebra and $e\in \mathfrak{g}$ a nilpotent element. Vust's Theorem says that in case of $G=\mathrm{GL}(V)$, the algebra ${\mathrm{End}}_{G_e}(V^{?d})$, where $G_e?G$ is the stabilizer of e under the adjoint action, is generated by the image of the natural action of d-th symmetric group ${\mathfrak{S}}_d$ and the linear maps $\{1^{?(i?1)}?e?1^{?(d?i)}|i=1,\dots ,d\}$. In this paper, we give an analogue of Vust's Theorem for $G=\mathrm{O}(V)$ and $\mathrm{SP}(V)$ when the nilpotent elements e satisfy that $\stackrel{￣}{G?e}$ is normal. As an application, we study the higher Schur–Weyl duality in the sense of [4] for types B, C and D, which establishes a relationship between W-algebras and degenerate affine braid algebras.     

Complexity of simple modules over the Lie superalgebra osp(k|2)

The complexity of a module is the rate of growth of the minimal projective resolution of the module while the z-complexity is the rate of growth of the number of indecomposable summands at each step in the resolution. Let $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{osp}(k|2)$ ($k>2$) be the type II orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra of types B or D. In this paper, we compute the complexity and the z-complexity of the simple finite-dimensional $\mathfrak{g}$-supermodules. We then give these complexities certain geometric interpretations using support and associated varieties.     

Formality theorem for g-manifolds

With any $\mathfrak{g}$-manifold M are associated two dglas $\mathrm{tot}({\mathrm{\Lambda }}^{?}{\mathfrak{g}}^{\vee }{?}_{\mathbb{k}}{T}_{\mathrm{poly}}^{?}(M))$ and $\mathrm{tot}({\mathrm{\Lambda }}^{?}{\mathfrak{g}}^{\vee }{?}_{\mathbb{k}}{D}_{\mathrm{poly}}^{?}(M))$, whose cohomologies $H_{\mathrm{CE}}^{?}(\mathfrak{g},T_{\mathrm{poly}}^{?}(M)\stackrel{0}{\to }{T}_{\mathrm{poly}}^{?+1}(M))$ and $H_{\mathrm{CE}}^{?}(\mathfrak{g},D_{\mathrm{poly}}^{?}(M)\stackrel{d_H}{\to }{D}_{\mathrm{poly}}^{?+1}(M))$ are Gerstenhaber algebras. We establish a formality theorem for $\mathfrak{g}$-manifolds: there exists an $L_{\infty }$ quasi-isomorphism $\mathrm{\Phi }:\mathrm{tot}({\mathrm{\Lambda }}^{?}{\mathfrak{g}}^{\vee }{?}_{\mathbb{k}}{T}_{\mathrm{poly}}^{?}(M))\to \mathrm{tot}({\mathrm{\Lambda }}^{?}{\mathfrak{g}}^{\vee }{?}_{\mathbb{k}}{D}_{\mathrm{poly}}^{?}(M))$ whose first ‘Taylor coefficient’ (1) is equal to the Hochschild–Kostant–Rosenberg map twisted by the square root of the Todd cocycle of the $\mathfrak{g}$-manifold M, and (2) induces an isomorphism of Gerstenhaber algebras on the level of cohomology. Consequently, the Hochschild–Kostant–Rosenberg map twisted by the square root of the Todd class of the $\mathfrak{g}$-manifold M is an isomorphism of Gerstenhaber algebras from $H_{\mathrm{CE}}^{?}(\mathfrak{g},T_{\mathrm{poly}}^{?}(M)\stackrel{0}{\to }{T}_{\mathrm{poly}}^{?+1}(M))$ to $H_{\mathrm{CE}}^{?}(\mathfrak{g},D_{\mathrm{poly}}^{?}(M)\stackrel{d_H}{\to }{D}_{\mathrm{poly}}^{?+1}(M))$.     

A remark on the orbit structure of the complexification of a semisimple symmetric space

We consider the action of a real semisimple Lie group G on the complexification $G_{\mathbf{C}}/H_{\mathbf{C}}$ of a semisimple symmetric space $G/H$ and we present a refinement of Matsuki?s results (Matsuki, 1997 [1]) in this case. We exhibit a finite set of points in $G_{\mathbf{C}}/H_{\mathbf{C}}$, sitting on closed G-orbits of locally minimal dimension, whose slice representation determines the G-orbit structure of $G_{\mathbf{C}}/H_{\mathbf{C}}$. Every such point $\overline{p}$ lies on a compact torus and occurs at specific values of the restricted roots of the symmetric pair $(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{h})$. The slice representation at $\overline{p}$ is equivalent to the isotropy representation of a real reductive symmetric space, namely $Z_G(p^4)/G_{\overline{p}}$. In principle, this gives the possibility to explicitly parametrize all G-orbits in $G_{\mathbf{C}}/H_{\mathbf{C}}$.     

Transcendence degree one function fields over a finite field with many automorphisms

Let $\mathbb{K}$ be the algebraic closure of a finite field ${\mathbb{F}}_q$ of odd characteristic p. For a positive integer m prime to p, let $F=\mathbb{K}(x,y)$ be the transcendence degree 1 function field defined by $y^q+y=x^m+x^{?m}$. Let $t=x^{m(q?1)}$ and $H=\mathbb{K}(t)$. The extension $F|H$ is a non-Galois extension. Let K be the Galois closure of F with respect to H. By Stichtenoth [20], K has genus $\mathfrak{g}(K)=(qm?1)(q?1)$, p-rank (Hasse–Witt invariant) $\gamma (K)={(q?1)}^2$ and a $\mathbb{K}$-automorphism group of order at least $2q^{2}m(q?1)$. In this paper we prove that this subgroup is the full $\mathbb{K}$-automorphism group of K; more precisely ${\text{Aut}}_{\mathbb{K}}(K)=\mathrm{\Delta }?D$ where Δ is an elementary abelian p-group of order $q^2$ and D has an index 2 cyclic subgroup of order $m(q?1)$. In particular, $\sqrt{m}|{\text{Aut}}_{\mathbb{K}}(K)|>\mathfrak{g}{(K)}^{3/2}$, and if K is ordinary (i.e. $\mathfrak{g}(K)=\gamma (K)$) then $|{\text{Aut}}_{\mathbb{K}}(K)|>{\mathfrak{g}}^{3/2}$. On the other hand, if G is a solvable subgroup of the $\mathbb{K}$-automorphism group of an ordinary, transcendence degree 1 function field L of genus $\mathfrak{g}(L)\ge 2$ defined over $\mathbb{K}$, then $|{\text{Aut}}_{\mathbb{K}}(K)|\le 34{(\mathfrak{g}(L)+1)}^{3/2}<68\sqrt{2}\mathfrak{g}{(L)}^{3/2}$; see [15]. This shows that K hits this bound up to the constant $68\sqrt{2}$.Since ${\text{Aut}}_{\mathbb{K}}(K)$ has several subgroups, the fixed subfield $F^N$ of such a subgroup N may happen to have many automorphisms provided that the normalizer of N in ${\text{Aut}}_{\mathbb{K}}(K)$ is large enough. This possibility is worked out for subgroups of Δ.     

Higher genus Kashiwara–Vergne problems and the Goldman–Turaev Lie bialgebra

We define a family ${\mathrm{KV}}^{(g,n+1)}$ of Kashiwara–Vergne problems associated with compact connected oriented 2-manifolds of genus g with $n+1$ boundary components. The problem ${\mathrm{KV}}^{(0,3)}$ is the classical Kashiwara–Vergne problem from Lie theory. We show the existence of solutions to ${\mathrm{KV}}^{(g,n+1)}$ for arbitrary g and n. The key point is the solution to ${\mathrm{KV}}^{(1,1)}$ based on the results by B. Enriquez on elliptic associators. Our construction is motivated by applications to the formality problem for the Goldman–Turaev Lie bialgebra ${\mathfrak{g}}^{(g,n+1)}$. In more detail, we show that every solution to ${\mathrm{KV}}^{(g,n+1)}$ induces a Lie bialgebra isomorphism between ${\mathfrak{g}}^{(g,n+1)}$ and its associated graded $\mathrm{gr}{\mathfrak{g}}^{(g,n+1)}$. For $g=0$, a similar result was obtained by G. Massuyeau using the Kontsevich integral. For $g\ge 1$, $n=0$, our results imply that the obstruction to surjectivity of the Johnson homomorphism provided by the Turaev cobracket is equivalent to the Enomoto–Satoh obstruction.     

On the difficulty of finding spines

We prove that the set of symplectic lattices in the Siegel space ${\mathfrak{h}}_g$ whose systoles generate a subspace of dimension at least 3 in ${\mathbb{R}}^{2g}$ does not contain any $\mathrm{Sp}(2g,\mathbb{Z})$-equivariant deformation retract of ${\mathfrak{h}}_g$.     

On the distance between linear codes

Let V be an n-dimensional vector space over the finite field consisting of q elements and let ${\mathrm{\Gamma }}_k(V)$ be the Grassmann graph formed by k-dimensional subspaces of V, $1<k<n-1$. Denote by $\mathrm{\Gamma }{(n,k)}_q$ the restriction of ${\mathrm{\Gamma }}_k(V)$ to the set of all non-degenerate linear ${[n,k]}_q$ codes. We show that for any two codes the distance in $\mathrm{\Gamma }{(n,k)}_q$ coincides with the distance in ${\mathrm{\Gamma }}_k(V)$ only in the case when $n<{(q+1)}^2+k-2$, i.e. if n is sufficiently large then for some pairs of codes the distances in the graphs ${\mathrm{\Gamma }}_k(V)$ and $\mathrm{\Gamma }{(n,k)}_q$ are distinct. We describe one class of such pairs.     

Maximal linear groups induced on the Frattini quotient of a p-group

Let $p>3$ be a prime. For each maximal subgroup $H?\mathrm{GL}(d,p)$ with $|H|?p^{3d+1}$, we construct a d-generator finite p-group G with the property that $\mathrm{Aut}(G)$ induces H on the Frattini quotient $G/\mathrm{\Phi }(G)$ and $|G|?p^{\frac{d^4}{2}}$. A significant feature of this construction is that $|G|$ is very small compared to $|H|$, shedding new light upon a celebrated result of Bryant and Kovács. The groups G that we exhibit have exponent p, and of all such groups G with the desired action of H on $G/\mathrm{\Phi }(G)$, the construction yields groups with smallest nilpotency class, and in most cases, the smallest order.