ON GRADED SYMMETRIC CELLULAR ALGEBRAS

Abstract

Let $A=\bigoplus _{i\in \mathbb{Z}}A_{i}$ be a finite-dimensional graded symmetric cellular algebra with a homogeneous symmetrizing trace of degree $d$. We prove that if $d\neq 0$ then $A_{-d}$ contains the Higman ideal $H(A)$ and $\dim H(A)\leq \dim A_{0}$, and provide a semisimplicity criterion for $A$ in terms of the centralizer of $A_{0}$.