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Why does Drinfeld Unitarization work?
In Drinfeld's paper "Quasi-Hopf Algebras" he illuminates a process by which you can replace the $R \in A \otimes A$ associated to a quasi-Hopf QUE-algebra $(A, \Delta, \varepsilon, \Phi)$ ...
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Axiomatic definition of quantum groups
This is a question I've discussed with a lot of mathematicians, and have read some mathematical texts about, and watched some conference talks about: what is, axiomatically, a quantum group?
There are ...
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About the classification of commutative and of cocommutative, fin. dim. Hopf algebras
I want to prove that the cocommutative finite dimensional Hopf algebras over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero are group algebras (for some finite group) and that the commutative f....
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Functoriality of the Hopf dual
Given Hopf $\mathbb{C}$-algebra $H$, it's Hopf dual $H^o$ is the largest Hopf algebra contained in $H^*$, the $\mathbb{C}$-linear dual of $H$. (This is well known to be well-defined, see for example ...
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A "concrete" example of a one-sided Hopf algebra
I came to know from the paper Left Hopf Algebras by Green, Nichols and Taft that one may consider a Hopf algebra whose antipode satisfies only the left (resp. right) antipode condition.
To be more ...
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Low dimensional noncommutative non-cocommutative Hopf algebras
Sweedler's Hopf algebra (see here) is the lowest dimesnional ($4$-dimensional) Hopf algebra that is noncommutative and non-cocommutative. What are the next examples? Are there noncommutative, ...
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How to define $U_q \mathfrak{g}$ without generators and relations?
I'm trying to learn something about quantum groups. The related definitions tend to consist of formulas which are not extremely intuitive, on the first glance. So I wonder how the amount of formulas ...
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Confusion around the reflection equation algebra
I have encountered several occurrences of the so called reflection equation algebra (REA) but depending on where I find them, I feel like I get slightly different objects. In all cases there is a ...
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Classifying Hopf algebras that admit a single irreducible comodule
Is it possible to classify Hopf algebras $H$, over a field $k$, which admit a unique (up to isomorphism) irreducible comodule, namely the trivial $1$-dim comodule
$$
k \to k \otimes H, ~~ k \mapsto k ...
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Comodules of Cosemisimple Hopf Algebras
A cosemisimple Hopf algebra is one which is the sum of its cosimple sub-cobalgebras. Is it clear that a comodule of a cosemisimple Hopf algebra always decomposes into irreducible parts? Moreover, will ...
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On a dual of Kaplansky's $2^{nd}$ conjecture: admissible algebras?
Kaplansky's second conjecture (on Hopf algebras) deals with "admissible" coalgebras: He calls a coalgebra admissible, if there is an algebra structure making it a Hopf algebra. The conjecture states ...
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Characters on Hopf algebras
For any algebra $A$, a character for $A$ is a non-zero algebra map $c:A \to \mathbb{C}$. For $H$ be a Hopf algebra, a character is given by $\epsilon:H \to \mathbb{C}$ the counit of $H$. I am looking ...
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Covariant splittings of Hopf algebra projections
What is an example of a pair of Hopf algebras $(A,B)$ with a surjective Hopf algebra map $\phi:A \to B$ such that $\phi$ does not admit a $B$-bi-comodule splitting $s:B \to A$? To be clear, the right $...
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Coinvariants of tensor products of Hopf algebras
Let $G$ be a Hopf algebra, considered as a right $G$-comodule in the obvious way.
The axioms of Hopf algebras imply that
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G^{\operatorname{coinv}(G)} == \{g \in G : \Delta(g) = g \otimes 1\} = \...
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Primitive elements in group hopf algebras over fields of non-zero characteristic
An element $x$ of a Hopf algebra $H$, is called a primitive element if $\Delta(x)=1\otimes x+x\otimes 1$. The set of primitive elements of $H$ is denoted $P(H)$. It can be shown that:
"If $H$ is a $\...
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Name for a Hopf algebra whose only grouplike element is the identity?
For a $k$-Hopf algebra $H$ and element $h \in H$ is called grouplike is $\Delta(h) = h \otimes h$ and $\epsilon(h)=1_k$ ($\epsilon$ is the counit). The identity $1_H$ is clearly grouplike, but in ...
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Cosemi-simple FRT Hopf Algebras
This question is a somewhere similar variation on an old question of mine. Given an FRT-algebra, which is to say, roughly, that it can be constructed from an R-matrix in the Yang--Baxter sense (see ...
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Irreducibility of product bicomodules
Let $H$ be a Hopf algebra, and $V$ and $W$ a left, and a right,
$H$-comodule respectively. The tensor product
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V \otimes W
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has an obvious $H$-$H$-bicomodule structure.
If $V$ and $W$ are ...
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Definition of a cosemisimple Hopf algebra
A cosemisimple Hopf algebra is usually defined to a Hopf algebra which is the sum of its cosimple subcoalgebras. Does this definition assume that each cosimple subcoalgebra appears only once in the ...
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$H$-Hopf modules equal the tensor products of their coinvariants with H
In a comment for this old question, it was said that
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There is a theorem that Hopf modules are (up to isomorphism) the tensor products of their coinvariants with H. (This theorem is usually worded ...
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A comodule algebra map from a Hopf algebra to itself
Let $H$ be a cosemisimple Hopf algebra (or just a bialgebra). Considering $H$ as a left $H$-comodule (i.e. take $\Delta_H$ to be the coaction), can there exist a (non-identity) algebra map $\sigma:H \...
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Non-counital coalgebras
For any unital algebra $A$, we have an associated dual coalgebra $A^{\circ}$. (Recall that it is defined to be the largest subalgebra of the $\mathbf{C}$-linear dual of $A$ such that the coproduct $\...
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Are braided commutators primitive elements of a braided Hopf algebra?
Let $H$ be a braided Hopf algebra. The multiplication on $H \otimes H$ is defined by $(a \otimes b)(c \otimes d) = a \Psi(b \otimes c) d$, $a,b,c,d \in H$.
Let $H = T(V)$. There is a algebra map $\...
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Module algebras and comodule algebras
Let $H$ be a Hopf algebra and $A$ an algebra. Let $H^*$ be the dual Hopf algebra of $H$. Then by Proposition 1.6.11 in the book Foundations of Quantum Group Theory by Shahn Majid, $A$ is a right $H$-...
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What are all primitive elements in a tensor algebra?
Let $H$ be a Hopf algebra and $V$ a Yetter-Drinfeld module over $H$. Then there is a braiding $\Psi: V \otimes V \to V \otimes V$ given by $\Psi(x \otimes y) = x_{(-1)}.y \otimes x_{(0)}$, where $x_{(-...
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