Some homological properties of category $\mathcal O$ for Lie superalgebras

Abstract

For classical Lie superalgebras of type I, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a Verma supermodule $Δ(λ)$ to be such that every non-zero homomorphism from another Verma supermodule to $Δ(λ)$ is injective. This is applied to describe the socle of the cokernel of an inclusion of Verma supermodules over the periplectic Lie superalgebras $\mathfrak{pe}(n)$ and, furthermore, to reduce the problem of description of $\mathrm{Ext}^1_{\mathcal O}(L(μ),Δ(λ))$ for $\mathfrak{pe}(n)$ to the similar problem for the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{gl}(n)$. Additionally, we study the projective and injective dimensions of structural supermodules in parabolic category $\mathcal O^{\mathfrak p}$ for classical Lie superalgebras. In particular, we completely determine these dimensions for structural supermodules over the periplectic Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak{pe}(n)$ and the ortho-symplectic Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak{osp}(2|2n)$.