Whittaker categories, properly stratified categories and Fock space categorification for Lie superalgebras

Abstract

We study various categories of Whittaker modules over a type I Lie superalgebra realized as cokernel categories that fit into the framework of properly stratified categories. These categories are the target of the Backelin functor $\Gamma_\zeta$. We show that these categories can be described, up to equivalence, as Serre quotients of the BGG category $\mathcal O$ and of certain singular categories of Harish-Chandra $(\mathfrak g,\mathfrak g_{\bar 0})$-bimodules. We also show that $\Gamma_\zeta$ is a realization of the Serre quotient functor. We further investigate a $q$-symmetrized Fock space over a quantum group of type A and prove that, for general linear Lie superalgebras our Whittaker categories, the functor $\Gamma_\zeta$ and various realizations of Serre quotients and Serre quotient functors categorify this $q$-symmetrized Fock space and its $q$-symmetrizer. In this picture, the canonical and dual canonical bases in this $q$-symmetrized Fock space correspond to tilting and simple objects in these Whittaker categories, respectively.