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Title: From the Albert algebra to Kac's ten-dimensional Jordan superalgebra via tensor categories in characteristic 5

Abstract: Kac's ten-dimensional simple Jordan superalgebra over a field of characteristic 5 is obtained from a process of semisimplification, via tensor categories, from the exceptional simple Jordan algebra (or Albert algebra), together with a suitable order 5 automorphism. This explains McCrimmon's 'bizarre result' asserting that, in characteristic 5, Kac's superalgebra is a sort of 'degree 3 Jordan superalgebra'. As an outcome, the exceptional simple Lie superalgebra el(5;5), specific of characteristic 5, is obtained from the simple Lie algebra of type $E_8$ and an order 5 automorphism. In the process, precise recipes to obtain superalgebras from algebras in the category of representations of the cyclic group $C_p$, over a field of characteristic $p>2$, are given.
Comments: 22 pages
Subjects: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
MSC classes: Primary 17C40, Secondary 17C70, 17B25, 18M15
Cite as: arXiv:2404.01719 [math.RA]
  (or arXiv:2404.01719v1 [math.RA] for this version)

Submission history

From: Alberto Elduque [view email]
[v1] Tue, 2 Apr 2024 08:11:22 GMT (25kb)

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