Quantized enveloping algebras for Borcherds superalgebras
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We construct quantum deformations of enveloping algebras of Borcherds superalgebras, their Verma modules, and their irreducible highest weight modules.References
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Additional Information
- Georgia Benkart
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1388
- MR Author ID: 34650
- Email: benkart@math.wisc.edu
- Seok-Jin Kang
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
- MR Author ID: 307910
- Email: sjkang@math.snu.ac.kr
- Duncan Melville
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York 13617
- Email: dmel@music.stlawu.edu
- Received by editor(s): October 1, 1996
- Additional Notes: The first author was supported in part by NSF Grant #DMS-9300523
The second author was supported in part by the Nondirected Research Fund, Korea Research Foundation, 1996
The third author was supported in part by a Faculty Research Grant from St. Lawrence University - © Copyright 1998 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 350 (1998), 3297-3319
- MSC (1991): Primary 17B37, 17B65, 17B67, 81R50
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-98-02058-3
- MathSciNet review: 1451594