BGG Resolutions, Koszulity, and Stratifications, Part I: the nilBrauer Algebra

Abstract

In this paper we homologically construct a (functorial) BGG resolution of the finite-dimensional simple module of the nilBrauer algebra by using infinity-categorical methods following the reconstruction-from-stratification philosophy, e.g. appearing in Ayala-Mazel-Gee-Rozenblyum. To do so, we prove a fact of independent interest, that half of the nilBrauer algebra is Koszul. This BGG resolution categorifies a character formula of Brundan-Wang-Webster. More generally, we have a (functorial) ``BGG spectral sequence'' which converges to any desired module; this spectral sequence is secretly a resolution when the desired module is finite-dimensional. This spectral sequence also categorifies the character formulae of Brundan-Wang-Webster for any (possibly infinite-dimensional) simple module. We expect the methods used here for producing BGG resolutions to be applicable to other (graded) triangular-based algebras also, especially diagrammatic ones.