The Global Dimension of Schur Algebras for GL_2 and GL_3

Abstract

We first define the notion of good filtration dimension and Weyl filtration dimension in a quasi-hereditary algebra. We calculate these dimensions explicitly for all irreducible modules in SL_2 and SL_3. We use these to show that the global dimension of a Schur algebra for GL_2 and GL_3 is twice the good filtration dimension. To do this for SL_3, we give an explicit filtration of the modules \nabla(\lambda) by modules of the form \nabla(\mu)^F \otimes L(\nu) where \mu is a dominant weight and \nu is p-restricted.