Cyclotomic nil-Brauer and Singular Soergel bimodules of type D

Abstract: We introduce a new family of monoidal categories which are cyclotomic quotients of the nil-Brauer category. We construct a monoidal functor from the cyclotomic nil-Brauer category to another monoidal category constructed from singular Soergel bimodules of type D. We conjecture that our functor is an equivalence of categories. Although we can prove neither fullness nor faithfulness at this point, we are able to show that the functor induces an isomorphism at the level of Grothendieck rings. We compute these rings and their canonical bases over any field of characteristic different from 2, and give diagrammatic descriptions of the corresponding primitive idempotents.