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Mathematics
CLC number: O152.5
Presenting Little q-Schur Superalgebra uk(2|1,3)
小q-Schur超代数 uk(2|1,3)的展示
College of Mathematics and Physics, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, Hubei, China
(三峡大学 数理学院,湖北 宜昌 443002)
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Received:
18
February
2025
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the generators and relations for little q-Schur superalgebra
. The basis of
is obtained through the Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt (PBW) basis of q-Schur superalgebra
, then we present a new set for generators and relations for
by PBW basis.
摘要
本文研究小q-Schur超代数
的生成元与关系式。由q-Schur超代数
的Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt(PBW)基得到了小q-Schur超代数
的基,并由此给出了小q-Schur超代数
一组新的生成元与关系式。
Key words: q-Schur superalgebra / little q-Schur superalgebra / Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt (PBW) basis / generators and relations
关键字 : q-Schur超代数 / 小q-Schur超代数 / Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt(PBW)基 / 生成元与关系式
Cite this article: GE Xiaoxue, ZHANG Li. Presenting Little q-Schur Superalgebra uk(21,3)[J]. Wuhan Univ J of Nat Sci, 2026, 31(3): 263-268.
Biography: GE Xiaoxue, female, Master candidate, research direction: algebraic groups, quantum groups. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Foundation item: Supported by the Natural Research Project of Yichang(A23-026)
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0 Introduction
Let
be the q-Schur algebras over
introduced by Dipper and James[1-2], who have showed that q-Schur algebras play an important role in the investigation of presentation theory of the finite general linear groups. The presentation of the q-Schur algebras could be referred to Refs. [3-4]. Gao and Liu[5] gave a set of primitives for the center of q-Schur algebras
. Du et al[6] studied the representation of little q-Schur algebra and gave a classification of finite representations of little q-Schur algebras under odd unit roots. And they pointed out that there is no nice and simple presentation for
. Then, Bian and Liu[7] gave the presentation of little q-Schur algebras
.
Little q-Schur superalgebras have been an important approach to studying q-Schur superalgebras. Turkey and Kujawa[8] gave a presentation of the Schur superalgebra and its quantum analogue. Chen[9] generalized algebra and quantum supergroup to the infinitesimal case, and finally obtained the infinitesimal theory of q-Schur superalgebras and the Beilinson-Lusztig-MacPherson (BLM) realization of integral quantum supergroups. Then, on one hand, we want to get deep understanding of the structure of the little q-Schur superalgebra
by investigating the representation of
in this paper; on the other hand, since little q-Schur superalgebras are closely related to q-Schur superalgebras, the research results on
may be generalized to the study of more general little q-Schur superalgebras and even q-Schur superalgebras.
This paper studies the generators and relations for little q-Schur superalgebra
.We briefly recall the definitions of q-Schur superalgebras
in Section 1. In Section 2, we prove that the set
is the basis of
and present the generators and relations of
.
1 Preliminary
In the case of superalgebras, define a parity function, a mapping
, on the set
, for any
, there is

Note
is the quantum enveloping superalgebra of the Lie superalgebra
[10]. Let
. As a vector space,
is the set of
by
matrices. For
, we set
to be the matrix unit with a 1 in
-th row and
-th column. Then the set of matrix units forms a homogeneous basis for
. The degree of
is
. For any
,
is the parity of
, and the square bracket
is the super-Lie bracket, it means
. From now on, we mark
for convenience.
Definition 1[8] The quantum supergroup
is generated by the elements

subject to the following relations:
(Q1)
;
(Q2) 
(Q3)
;
(Q4)
(Q5) if
,




(Q6)
Let v be an indeterminate and
, and Gauss symmetric polynomials will be introduced here . For any integers
, let
, 
and
. For any integers
and
,
, we write
and define the root vectors in
as follows. If
, then set
,
. For
, inductively set
,
. Besides for short, let
. Specializing
to
,
will be viewed as an
-module. When
is specialized to
,
,
and
specialize to
,
and
. And we define
.
Theorem 1[8] The q-Schur superalgebras
are generated by the elements

subject to the following relations:
(Q1)-(Q6) in Definition 1.
(Q7)
(Q8)
,
.
By Theorem 1, we can obtain the algebraic full homomorphism
, such that there is
,
,
for
and
.
Theorem 2[11] There is an algebra homomorphism
satisfying

where
(1 in position a).
Lemma 1[9] 1) The set
is the orthogonal idempotent set of
;
2) For any
and
,
.
Theorem 3[12] For all
, the set
forms a
(q)-basis for q-Schur superalgebras
.
Let
and
, define

Let
be the set of all
such that
for all
and
be the set of all
whose diagonal entries are zero. According to Theorem 1, the following results can be obtained.
Lemma 2[8] For 
and
, we have
1)
;
2)
, where
;
3)
.
Proposition 1[9] For
,
1) If there exist
for all
and
, then
, where
; otherwise,
;
2) If there exist
for all
and
, then
, where
; otherwise,
, where
and
denote the column sum and row sum of the matrix
, respectively.
2 The Little q-Schur Superalgebra
Let
be the subalgebra of
which is generated by all
,
.
According to (Q2),
(
) is the central element of
(and therefore also
). Let
be the ideal generated by
(
) in
and
.
Thus quotient (super) algebra
is called
infinitesimal quantum supergroup. The image of
under
is denoted as
.
is called little q-Schur superalgebra related to
,
,
and
.
Theorem 4 The set

3,
forms a basis for
.
Proof Fix
satisfying
for all
. By the definition of
, we have

In the q-Schur superalgebra
, for any
, if
for some
, then it lies in the span of
in Theorem 3. Then we have

By Theorem 3, the elements above are linearly independent, thus the set
is linearly independent.
Inspired by Ref. [8], we have the following commutation formulas in the
.
Proposition 2 For
,
,
, we define:

(2.1a)
;
(2.1b)
;
(2.1c)
;
(2.1d)
;
(2.1e)
;
(2.1f)
;
(2.1g)
.
Proof For (2.1a), by
.The equation holds.
For (2.1b), we can obtain
by

For (2.1c), in order to prove
, we need following steps:
Step 1 When
,we can easily prove
.
Step 2 When
, we assume
holds, then we will discuss the following situation:
For (2.1d), we can obtain
by (2.1c)

For (2.1e), in order to prove
, we need the following steps:
Step 3 When
,we can prove 

Step 4 When
, we assume
holds, then we will discuss the following situation:

For (2.1f, 2.1g), the proof is similar to the above.
Theorem 5 The algebra
is generated by the elements
, subject to the following relations:
when
;
;
;
when
;
when
;
when
;

;

;
(resp.
) for
(resp.
) and
satisfying that if 

The key to prove Theorem 5 is that in
, the relation
holds.
Proposition 3 In little q-Schur superalgebra
, we have
.
If
and
.
Proof 
From the above conclusions, it can be seen that little q-Schur superalgebra
satisfies the relation
of Theorem 5.
We define an algebra
which satisfies the generators and relations given in Theorem 5. Set
(resp.
,
) be the subalgebra generated by
(resp.
,
). For
, we give the root vectors in the same way, which satisfy the commutation formulas (2.1a)-(2.1g). According to the relations (LR3)-(LR7) in Theorem 5, we know that
can be spanned by all the elements
,
.
Proposition 4 The set

is a spanning set for
.
Proof Fixing
, to prove this proposition, it suffices to show that if
with
, satisfying
for some
, then
lies in the span of
. Here
is a linear combination of the elements in
and
is a constant.
Case 1 If
and
, assuming
. For
, we only need to consider
.
By Theorem 5
, when
(or
),
(or
) is a linear combination of the elements in
.Then we consider
, where
.
Case 1-1 If
and
, for
,
1) When
, by Theorem 5
,

where
is a linear combination of the elements in
.
2) When
, by Theorem 5
, we can obtain
.
Case 1-2 If
and
, for
, where
, by Theorem 5
,

Then,
1) When
,

2) When
, by Theorem 5
, we can obtain

where
and
are linear combinations of the elements in
.
For
, when
, the proof is similar to the above.
Case 1-3 If
and
, for
,
When
(or
), by Theorem 5
, we can obtain
.
When
, by Theorem 5
,

where
is a linear combination of the elements in
.
Case 2 If
and
, assuming
, for
, by the commutation formulas (2.1a), (2.1f) , we have

where
is a linear combination of the elements in
.Therefore, we only need to consider
.
By Theorem 5
, when
(or
),
(or
) is a linear combination of the elements in
. We consider
, where
and
.
Case 2-1 If
and
, we need to consider
,
When
, for
,
1) When
, by Theorem 5
,

where
is a linear combination of the elements in
.
2) When
, by Theorem 5
, we can obtain
.
When
, for
,
1) When
, by Theorem 5 (LR3, LR9) and the commutation formulas (2.1c),

where
is a linear combination of the elements in
.
2) When
, by Theorem 5
,

where
is a linear combination of the elements in
.
When
, for
,
1) When
, by the commutation formulas (2.1b), we have
,
where
is a linear combination of the elements in
.
2) When
, by theorem 5
and the commutation formulas (2.1d), we have

For
, when
, the proof is similar to the above.
Case 2-2 If
and
, for 
, when
, for
,by Theorem 5
and the commutation formulas (2.1d),

where
is a linear combination of the elements in
.
When
, by the commutation formulas (2.1b , 2.1d ), we have


where
is a linear combination of the elements in
.
For
, when
and
, the proof is similar to the above.
Case 2-3 If
and
,we need to consider
, by Theorem 5 (
,
) and the commutation formulas (2.1b , 2.1d ), we have

where
and
are the linear combination of the elements in
. We complete the proof of Proposition 4.
Proof of Theorem 5 By the definition of
and Theorem 1, it is clear that
satisfies the relations (Q1-Q6) in Definition 1. Hence, there is a surjective algebra homomorphism from
to
. On the basis of Theorem 3, Propositions 1 and 4, we have the
that satisfies the relations in Theorem 5. According to the definition of
, there is a surjective algebra homomorphism
from
to
satisfying
,
,
. On the other hand, by Proposition 1, we see that the map
sends the spanning set of
to the basis of
. Hence
is an isomorphism.
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