Permutation modules of the walled Brauer algebras
Sulakhana Chowdhury, Geetha Thangavelu
TL;DR
The paper addresses the decomposition of permutation modules for the direct product of symmetric groups $K\\mathfrak{S}_{a,b}$ and the walled Brauer algebras $\\mathcal{B}_{r,t}(\\delta)$ in characteristic not equal to $2$ or $3$. It develops a dual Specht filtration framework and shows that permutation modules admit a direct sum decomposition into indecomposable Young modules, with a uniquely determined top summand, using cellular stratification and induction techniques. The main result provides an explicit decomposition formula $M(l,(\\lambda,\\mu))\\cong Y(l,(\\lambda,\\mu))\\oplus \bigoplus a_{(m,(\\lambda',\\mu'))} Y(m,(\\lambda',\\mu'))$ ordered by a dominance relation, and proves that the Young modules are relative projective covers of cell modules inside a standardly stratified setting. The work also furnishes a Schur-algebraic perspective for the walled Brauer context, establishing a foundation for further structural and homological analysis of these algebras and their module categories.
Abstract
In this article, we study the permutation modules and Young modules of the group algebras of the direct product of symmetric groups $K\mathfrak{S}_{a,b}$, and the walled Brauer algebras $\B_{r,t}(δ)$. In the category of dual Specht-filtered modules, if the characteristic of the field is neither $2$ nor $3$, then the permutation modules are dual Specht filtered, and the Young modules are relative projective cover of the dual Specht modules. We prove that the restriction of the cell modules of $\B_{r,t}(δ)$ to the group algebras of the direct product of the symmetric groups is dual Specht filtered, and the Young modules act as the relative projective cover of the cell modules of $\B_{r,t}(δ)$. Finally, we prove that if $\mathrm{char}~K \neq 2,3$, then the permutation module of $\B_{r,t}(δ)$ can be written as a direct sum of indecomposable Young modules.
