Homological dimensions of Schur algebras $S(p,2p)$ and an Auslander-type correspondence

Abstract

We study the homological properties of Schur algebras $S(p,2p)$ over a field $k$ of positive characteristic $p$, focusing on their interplay with the representation theory of quotients of group algebras of symmetric groups via Schur–Weyl duality. Schur–Weyl duality establishes that the centraliser algebra, $\Lambda (p,2p)$, of the tensor space $(k^p{)}^{\otimes 2p}$ (as a module over $S(p,2p)$) is a quotient of the group algebra of the symmetric group. In this paper, we prove that Schur–Weyl duality between $S(p,2p)$ and $\Lambda (p,2p)$ is an instance of an Auslander-type correspondence.

We compute the global dimension of Schur algebras $S(p,2p)$ and their relative dominant dimension with respect to the tensor space $(k^p{)}^{\otimes 2p}$. In particular, we show that the pair $(S(p,2p),(k^p{)}^{\otimes 2p})$ forms a relative $4(p-1)$-Auslander pair in the sense of Cruz and Psaroudakis, thereby connecting Schur algebras with higher homological algebra. Moreover, we determine the Hemmer–Nakano dimension associated with the quasi-hereditary cover of $\Lambda (p,2p)$ that arises from Schur–Weyl duality. As an application, we show that the direct sum of some Young modules over $\Lambda (p,2p)$ is a full tilting module when $p>2$.