%0 Journal Article %T Shapovalov determinants of Q-type Lie superalgebras %A Maria Gorelik %J Mathematics %D 2005 %I arXiv %X We define an analogue of Shapovalov forms for Q-type Lie superalgebras and factorize the corresponding Shapovalov determinants which are responsible for simplicity of highest weight modules. We apply the factorization to obtain a description of the centres of Q-type Lie superalgebras. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511623v1