Schur duality is an equivalence, for d\leq n , between the category of finite-dimensional representations over \mathbb{C} of the symmetric group S_d on d letters, and the category of finite-dimensional representations over \mathbb{C} of \operatorname{GL}(n,\mathbb{C}) whose irreducible subquotients are subquotients of \smash{\overline{\mathbb{E}}^{\otimes d}} , \overline{\mathbb{E}}=\mathbb{C}^n . The latter are called polynomial representations homogeneous of degree d . It is based on decomposing \smash{\overline{\mathbb{E}}^{\otimes d}} as a \mathbb{C}[S_d]\times\operatorname{GL}(n,\mathbb{C}) -bimodule. It was used by Schur to conclude the semisimplicity of the category of finite-dimensional complex \operatorname{GL}(n,\mathbb{C}) -modules from the corresponding result for S_d that had been obtained by Young. Here we extend this duality to the affine super case by constructing a functor \mathcal{F}\colon M\mapsto M\otimes_{\mathbb{C}[S_d]}\mathbb{E}^{\otimes d} , \mathbb{E} now being the super vector space \mathbb{C}^{m|n} , from the category of finite-dimensional \mathbb{C}[S_d\ltimes\mathbb{Z}^d] -modules, or representations of the affine Weyl, or symmetric, group S_d^a=S_d\ltimes\mathbb{Z}^d , \emph{to} the category of finite-dimensional representations of the universal enveloping algebra of the affine Lie superalgebra \mathfrak{U}(\widehat{\operatorname{sl}}(m|n)) that are \mathbb{E}^{\otimes d} -compatible, namely the subquotients of whose restriction to \mathfrak{U}(\operatorname{sl}](m|n)) are constituents of \mathbb{E}^{\otimes d} . Both categories are not semisimple. When d<m+n the functor defines an equivalence of categories. As an application we conclude that the irreducible finite-dimensional \mathbb{E}^{\otimes d} -compatible representations of the affine superalgebra \widehat{\operatorname{sl}}(m|n) are tensor products of evaluation representations at distinct points of \mathbb{C}^\times .
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