THE QUEER -SCHUR SUPERALGEBRA

Abstract

As a natural generalisation of $q$-Schur algebras associated with the Hecke algebra ${\mathcal{H}}_{r,R}$ (of the symmetric group), we introduce the queer $q$-Schur superalgebra associated with the Hecke–Clifford superalgebra ${\mathcal{H}}_{r,R}^{\mathsf{c}}$, which, by definition, is the endomorphism algebra of the induced ${\mathcal{H}}_{r,R}^{\mathsf{c}}$-module from certain $q$-permutation modules over ${\mathcal{H}}_{r,R}$. We will describe certain integral bases for these superalgebras in terms of matrices and will establish the base-change property for them. We will also identify the queer $q$-Schur superalgebras with the quantum queer Schur superalgebras investigated in the context of quantum queer supergroups and provide a constructible classification of their simple polynomial representations over a certain extension of the field $\mathbb{C}(\mathbf{v})$ of complex rational functions.