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Can one define quantized universal enveloping algebras in a basis-free way?

(For the background, I am learning about quantum groups — essentially in order to understand crystal/global/canonical bases in the context of this question — from the books by Jantzen and by Hong&...
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When is this map of Hopf algebras Surjective?

I'm reading Akhil Mathew's blog post on Formal Lie Theory in Characteristic Zero. Let $H$ be cocommutative Hopf algebra over a field $k$. We can form $\mathfrak{g}$, the Lie algebra over $k$ ...
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Quantum invariant: The canonical $2$-tensor

In Chapter XVI Kassel introduces a proper definition of a quantum universal enveloping algebra of a Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$. (See definition XVI.5.1). Notice that a quantum enveloping algebra has a ...
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