An odd categorification of
Alexander P. Ellis
University of Oregon, Eugene, USAAaron D. Lauda
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States
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Abstract
We define a 2-category that categorifies the covering Kac–Moody algebra for introduced by Clark and Wang. This categorification forms the structure of a super-2-category as formulated by Kang, Kashiwara, and Oh. The super-2-category structure introduces a -grading giving its Grothendieck group the structure of a free module over the group algebra of . By specializing the -action to +1 or to −1, the construction specializes to an “odd” categorification of and to a supercategorification of , respectively.
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Alexander P. Ellis, Aaron D. Lauda, An odd categorification of . Quantum Topol. 7 (2016), no. 2, pp. 329–433
DOI 10.4171/QT/78