Support varieties and modules of finite projective dimension for modular Lie superalgebras (with an appendix on homological dimensions over Noether Algebras by Luchezar L. Avramov and Srikanth B. Iyengar)

Abstract

We investigate cohomological support varieties for finite-dimensional Lie superalgebras defined over fields of odd characteristic. Verifying a conjecture from our previous work, we show the support variety of a finite-dimensional supermodule can be realized as an explicit subset of the odd nullcone of the underlying Lie superalgebra. We also show the support variety of a finite-dimensional supermodule is zero if and only if the supermodule is of finite projective dimension. As a consequence, we obtain a positive characteristic version of a theorem of Bøgvad, showing that if a finite-dimensional Lie superalgebra over a field of odd characteristic is absolutely torsion free, then its enveloping algebra is of finite global dimension.