TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Volume 361, Number 3, March 2009, Pages 1129–1172 S 0002-9947(08)04539-X Article electronically published on October 8, 2008
QUADRATIC DUALS, KOSZUL DUAL FUNCTORS, AND APPLICATIONS
VOLODYMYR MAZORCHUK, SERGE OVSIENKO, AND CATHARINA STROPPEL
Abstract. This paper studies quadratic and Koszul duality for modules over positively graded categories. Typical examples are modules over a path al- gebra, which is graded by the path length, of a not necessarily finite quiver with relations. We present a very general definition of quadratic and Koszul duality functors backed up by explicit examples. This generalizes the work of Beilinson, Ginzburg, and Soergel, 1996, in two substantial ways: We work in the setup of graded categories, i.e. we allow infinitely many idempotents and also define a “Koszul” duality functor for not necessarily Koszul categories. As an illustration of the techniques we reprove the Koszul duality (Ryom-Hansen, 2004) of translation and Zuckerman functors for the classical category O in a quite elementary and explicit way. From this we deduce a conjecture of Bern- stein, Frenkel, and Khovanov, 1999. As applications we propose a definition of a “Koszul” dual category for integral blocks of Harish-Chandra bimodules and for blocks outside the critical hyperplanes for the Kac-Moody category O.
1. Introduction This paper deals with (categories of) modules over positively graded categories, defines quadratic duality and studies Koszul duality. The first motivation behind this is to get a generalized Koszul or quadratic duality which also works for module categories over not necessarily finite-dimensional, not necessarily unital algebras. In our opinion, the language of modules over (positively) graded categories is very well adapted to this task. Our second motivation is to provide a definition of quadratic duality functors for any quadratic algebra. These functors give rise to the usual Koszul duality functors for Koszul algebras. Remind yourself that a positively graded algebra is Koszul if all simple modules have a linear projective resolution. Despite this definition and the vast amount of literature on Koszul algebras and Koszul duality (see, for example, [BGS, GK, GRS, Ke2] and the references therein), and, in particular, its relation to linear resolutions (see, for example, [GMRSZ, HI, MVZ] and the references therein), it seems that (apart from [MVS]) there are no attempts to study Koszul duality by working seriously
Received by the editors April 26, 2006. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 16S37, 18E30, 16G20, 17B67. The first author was partially supported by the Swedish Research Council. The second author was partially supported by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT). The third author was supported by The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).