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...

The concept of a Hopf algebra originated in topology. Classically, Hopf algebras are defined on the basis of unital modules over commutative, unital rings. The intention of the present work is to study Hopf algebra formalism (§1.2) from a universal-algebraic point of view, within the context of entropic varieties. In an entropic variety, the operations of each algebra are homomorphisms, and ten...

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...

Connes and Kreimer have discovered the Hopf algebra structure behind the renormalization of Feynman integrals. We generalize the Hopf algebra to the case of ribbon graphs, i.e. to the case of theories with matrix fields. The Hopf algebra is naturally defined in terms of surfaces corresponding to ribbon graphs. As an example, we discuss the renormalization of Φ4 theory and the 1/N expansion.

Various aspects of the de Rham cohomology of Hopf algebras are discussed. In particular, it is shown that the de Rham cohomology of an algebra with the differentiable coaction of a cosemisimple Hopf algebra with trivial 0-th cohomology group, reduces to the de Rham cohomology of (co)invariant forms. Spectral sequences are discussed and the van Est spectral sequence for Hopf algebras is introduc...

Often A is called H-module algebra. We refer reader to [11, 6] for the basic information concerning Hopf algebras and their actions on associative algebras. Definition 1.2 The invariants of H in A is the set AH of those a ∈ A, that ha = ε(h)a for each h ∈ H. Straightforward computations show, that AH is subalgebra of A. The notion of action of Hopf algebra on associative algebra generalize the ...

All −1-type pointed Hopf algebras with Weyl groups of exceptional type are found. It is proved that every non −1-type pointed Hopf algebra is infinite dimensional. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 16W30, 16G10 keywords: Quiver, Hopf algebra, Weyl group.

We construct a three parameter deformation of the Hopf algebra LDIAG. This new algebra is a true Hopf deformation which reduces to LDIAG on one hand and to MQSym on the other, relating LDIAG to other Hopf algebras of interest in contemporary physics. Further, its product law reproduces that of the algebra of polyzeta functions.

We study a natural construction of Hopf algebra quotients canonically associated to an R-matrix in a finite dimensional Hopf algebra. We apply this construction to show that a quasitriangular Hopf algebra whose dimension is odd and square-free is necessarily cocommutative.

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 ...