The use of homological and homotopical devices, such as Tor and AndréQuillen homology, have found substantial use in characterizing commutative algebras. The primary category setting has been differentially graded algebras and modules, but recently simplicial categories have also proved to be useful settings. In this paper, we take this point of view up a notch by extending some recent uses of ...

The notion of locally finite part of the dual coalgebra of certain quantized coordinate rings is introduced. In the case of irreducible flag manifolds this locally finite part is shown to coincide with a natural quotient coalgebra U of Uq(g). On the way the coradical filtration of U is determined. A graded version of the duality between U and the quantized coordinate ring is established. This l...

For a locally quasi-convex (lqc) abelian group G, we describe all compatible lqc topologies on G and apply this result to the Mackey problem for groups. We characterize groups which are or admit topology provide characterization of two whose product is Mackey. convex spaces