Irreducibility of induced supermodules for general linear supergroups

In this note we determine when an induced supermodule H_G ⁰(λ), corresponding to a dominant integral highest weight λ of the general linear supergroup G=GL(m|n), is irreducible. Using the contravariant duality given by the supertrace we obtain a characterization of irreducibility of Weyl supermodules V(λ). This extends the result of Kac ([12], [13]) who proved that, for ground fields of characteristic zero, V(λ) is irreducible if and only if λ is typical.