Schur-Weyl duality for the Brauer algebra and the ortho-symplectic Lie superalgebra

We give a proof of a Schur-Weyl duality statement between the Brauer algebra and the ortho-symplectic Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak{osp}(V)$.Comment: 22 pages, minor changes, to appear in M

On the radical of Brauer algebras

The radical of the Brauer algebra B_f^x is known to be non-trivial when the parameter x is an integer subject to certain conditions (with respect to f). In these cases, we display a wide family of elements in the radical, which are explicitly described by means of the diagrams of the usual basis of B_f^x . The proof is by direct approach for x=0, and via classical Invariant Theory in the other cases, exploiting then the well-known representation of Brauer algebras as centralizer algebras of orthogonal or symplectic groups acting on tensor powers of their standard representation. This also gives a great part of the radical of the generic indecomposable B_f^x-modules. We conjecture that this part is indeed the whole radical in the case of modules, and it is the whole part in a suitable step of the standard filtration in the case of the algebra. As an application, we find some more precise results for the module of pointed chord diagrams, and for the Temperley-Lieb algebra - realised inside B_f^1 - acting on it.Comment: AMS-TeX file, 2 figures (in EPS format), 25 pages. This is the final version, to appear in "Mathematische Zeitschrift". Comparing to the previous one, it has been streamlined and shortened - yet the mathematical content stands the same. The list of references has been update

The Jucys-Murphy basis and semisimplicty criteria for the qq-Brauer algebra

We construct the Jucys-Murphy elements and the Jucys-Murphy basis for the $q$-Brauer algebra in the sense of Mathas[11]. We also give a necessary and sufficient condition for the $q$-Brauer algebra being (split) semisimple over an arbitrary field.Comment: 21 page