Affine Sergeev Algebra and $q$-Analogues of the Young Symmetrizers for Projective Representations of the Symmetric Group

Abstract

We study a $q$-deformation for the semi-direct product of the symmetric group $S_n$ with the Clifford algebra on $n$ anticommuting generators. We obtain a $q$-version of the projective analogue for the classical Young symmetrizer found by the second author [Adv. Math. 127(1997), 190-257]. Our main tool is an analogue of the Hecke algebra of complex valued functions on the group $GL_{n}$ over a $p$-adic field relative to the Iwahori subgroup.