Date of Award

May 2013

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy

Department

Mathematics

First Advisor

Ian M. Musson

Committee Members

Ian M. Musson, Jeb Willenbring, Allen Bell, Yi Ming Zou, Fredric Ancel

Keywords

Enveloping Algebra, Lie Superalgebra, Orthosymplectic, Representation, Verma Module

Abstract

In his seminal 1977 paper [Kac77], V. G. Kac classified the finite dimensional simple Lie superalgebras over algebraically closed fields of characteristic zero. However, over thirty years later, the representation theory of these algebras is still not completely understood, nor is the structure of their enveloping algebras.

In this thesis, we consider a low-dimensional example, osp(3,2). We compute the composition factors and Jantzen filtrations of Verma modules over osp(3,2) in a variety of cases.

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