The highest weight theory for Representations of General Linear groups in the Verlinde categories in positive characteristic

Abstract

Following the work of Venkatesh (arXiv:2203.03158), we study further the categories of representations of the general linear groups $GL(X)$ in the Verlinde category $Ver_p$ in characteristic $p$. The main question we answer is how to translate between highest weight labelings for different choices of the Borel subgroup $B(X)\subset GL(X)$. We do this by reducing the general case to the study of representations of the group $GL(X)$ for $X=L_m\oplus L_{n}$ using the method of odd reflections. On the category of representations of $GL(L_m\oplus L_{n})$ we introduce the structure of the highest weight category, as well as the categorical action of $\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}_p$ through translation functors. It allows us to understand projective and injective objects, BGG reciprocity, duality and lowest weights for simple modules, and standard filtration multiplicities for projective objects.