In recent years a Hopf algebraic structure underlying the process of renormalization in quantum field theory was found. It led to a Birkhoff factorization for (regularized) Hopf algebra characters, i.e. for Feynman rules. In this work we would like to show that this Birkhoff factorization finds its natural formulation in terms of a classical r-matrix, coming from a Rota-Baxter structure underly...

We define the notion of factorizable quasi-Hopf algebra by using a categorical point of view. We show that the Drinfeld double D(H) of any finite dimensional quasi-Hopf algebra H is factorizable, and we characterize D(H) when H itself is factorizable. Finally, we prove that any finite dimensional factorizable quasi-Hopf algebra is unimodular. In particular, we obtain that the Drinfeld double D(...

We describe and study a four parameters deformation of the two products and the coproduct of the Hopf algebra of plane posets. We obtain a family of braided Hopf algebras, which are generically self-dual. We also prove that in a particular case (when the second parameter goes to zero and the first and third parameters are equal), this deformation is isomorphic, as a self-dual braided Hopf algeb...

A C∞-Hopf algebra is a C∞-algebra which is also a convenient Hopf algebra with respect to the structure induced by the evaluations of smooth functions. We characterize those C∞-Hopf algebras which are given by the algebra C∞(G) of smooth functions on some compact Lie group G, thus obtaining an anti-isomorphism of the category of compact Lie groups with a subcategory of convenient Hopf algebras.

To any Hopf algebra H we associate two commutative Hopf algebras Hl1(H) and Hl2(H), which we call the lazy homology Hopf algebras of H . These Hopf algebras are built in such a way that they are “predual” to the lazy cohomology groups based on the so-called lazy cocycles. We establish two universal coefficient theorems relating the lazy cohomology to the lazy homology and we compute the lazy ho...

Tannaka reconstruction provides a close link between monoidal categories and (quasi-)Hopf algebras. We discuss some applications of the ideas of Tannaka reconstruction to the theory of Hopf algebra extensions, based on the following construction: For certain inclusions of a Hopf algebra into a coquasibialgebra one can consider a natural monoidal category consisting of Hopf modules, and one can ...

We show that if a finite dimensional Hopf algebra over C has a basis such that all the structure constants are non-negative, then the Hopf algebra must be given by a finite group G and a factorization G = G+G− into two subgroups. We also show that Hopf algebras in the category of finite sets with correspondences as morphisms are classified in the similar way. Our results can be used to explain ...

The notions of Galois and cleft extensions are generalized for coquasi-Hopf algebras. It is shown that such an extension over a coquasi-Hopf algebra is cleft if and only if it is Galois and has the normal basis property. A Schneider type theorem ([33]) is proven for coquasi-Hopf algebras with bijective antipode. As an application, we generalize Schauenburg’s bialgebroid construction for coquasi...