We give some applications of a Hopf algebra constructed from a group acting on another Hopf algebra A as Hopf automorphisms, namely Molnar’s smash coproduct Hopf algebra. We find connections between the exponent and Frobenius-Schur indicators of a smash coproduct and the twisted exponents and twisted Frobenius-Schur indicators of the original Hopf algebra A. We study the category of modules of ...

We prove that a depth two Hopf subalgebra K of a semisimple Hopf algebra H is normal (where the ground field k is algebraically closed of characteristic zero). This means on the one hand that a Hopf subalgebra is normal when inducing (then restricting) modules several times as opposed to one time creates no new simple constituents. This point of view was taken in the paper [13] which establishe...

We propose the following principle to study pointed Hopf algebras, or more generally, Hopf algebras whose coradical is a Hopf subalgebra. Given such a Hopf algebra A, consider its coradical filtration and the associated graded coalgebra grA. Then grA is a graded Hopf algebra, since the coradical A0 of A is a Hopf subalgebra. In addition, there is a projection π : grA → A0; let R be the algebra ...

Copyright q 2010 Dongming Cheng. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We introduce a class of noncommutative and noncocommutative weak Hopf algebras with infinite Ext quivers and study their structure. We decompose them...

Let (H, σ) be a coquasitriangular Hopf algebra, not necessarily finite dimensional. Following methods of Doi and Takeuchi, which parallel the constructions of Radford in the case of finite dimensional quasitriangular Hopf algebras, we define Hσ , a sub-Hopf algebra of H, the finite dual of H. Using the generalized quantum double construction and the theory of Hopf algebras with a projection, we...

Starting from a Hopf algebra endowed with an action of a group π by Hopf automorphisms, we construct (by a “twisted” double method) a quasitriangular Hopf π-coalgebra. This method allows us to obtain non-trivial examples of quasitriangular Hopf π-coalgebras for any finite group π and for infinite groups π such as GLn(k). In particular, we define the graded quantum groups, which are Hopf π-coalg...

We prove the quasi-Hopf algebra version of the Nichols-Zoeller theorem: A finite-dimensional quasi-Hopf algebra is free over any quasi-Hopf subalgebra.

Let $H$ be a Hopf algebra and $A$ an $H$-bimodule algebra‎. ‎In this paper‎, ‎we investigate Gorenstein global dimensions for Hopf‎ ‎algebras and twisted smash product algebras $Astar H$‎. ‎Results from‎ ‎the literature are generalized‎. 

Hopf representation is a module and comodule with a consistency condition that is more general than the consistency condition of Hopf modules. For a Hopf algebra H, we construct an induced Hopf representation from a representation of a bialgebra B using a bialgebra epimorphism π : H → B. Application on the quantum group Eq(2) is given. Mathematics Subject Classification: 16T05, 06B15, 17B37