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Author(s): Georgia Benkart; Seok-Jin Kang; Duncan Melville
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 350 (1998), 3297-3319.
MSC (1991): Primary 17B37, 17B65, 17B67, 81R50
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Abstract: We construct quantum deformations of enveloping algebras of Borcherds superalgebras, their Verma modules, and their irreducible highest weight modules.

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Georgia Benkart
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1388
Email: benkart@math.wisc.edu

Seok-Jin Kang
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
Email: sjkang@math.snu.ac.kr

Duncan Melville
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York 13617
Email: dmel@music.stlawu.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-98-02058-3
PII: S 0002-9947(98)02058-3
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 of article: Copyright 1998, American Mathematical Society

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