Hopf Pairings and (Co)induction Functors over Commutative Rings

Co)induction functors appear in several areas of Algebra in different forms. Interesting examples are the so called induction functors in the Theory of Affine Algebraic Groups. In this paper we investigate Hopf pairings (bialgebra pairings) and use them to study (co)induction functors for affine group schemes over arbitrary commutative ground rings. We present also a special type of Hopf pairings (bialgebra pairings) satisfying the so called α-condition. For those pairings the coinduction functor is studied and nice descriptions of it are obtained. Along the paper several interesting results are generalized from the case of base fields to the case of arbitrary commutative (Noetherian) ground rings.