Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2012
Given a quasi-hereditary algebra , we present conditions which guarantee that the algebra
obtained by grading
by its radical filtration is Koszul and at the same time inherits the quasi-hereditary property and other good Lie-theoretic properties that
might possess. The method involves working with a pair
consisting of a quasi-hereditary algebra
and a (positively) graded subalgebra
. The algebra
arises as a quotient
of
by a defining ideal
of
. Along the way, we also show that the standard (Weyl) modules for
have a structure as graded modules for
. These results are applied to obtain new information about the finite dimensional algebras (e.g., the
-Schur algebras) which arise as quotients of quantum enveloping algebras. Further applications, perhaps the most penetrating, yield results for the finite dimensional algebras associated with semisimple algebraic groups in positive characteristic
. These results require, at least at present, considerable restrictions on the size of
.