We study quasi-Hopf algebras and their subobjects over certain commutative rings from the point of view of Frobenius algebras. We introduce a type of Radford formula involving an anti-automorphism and the Nakayama automorphism of a Frobenius algebra, then view several results in quantum algebras from this vantage-point. In addition, separability and strong separability of quasi-Hopf algebras ar...

We define a new cyclic module, dual to the Connes-Moscovici cyclic module, for Hopf algebras, and give a characteristric map for coactions of Hopf algebras. We also compute the resulting cyclic homology for cocommutative Hopf algebras, and some quantum groups.

We find a generalization of the restricted PBW basis for pointed Hopf algebras over abelian groups constructed by Kharchenko. We obtain a factorization of the Hilbert series for a wide class of graded Hopf algebras. These factors are parametrized by Lyndon words, and they are the Hilbert series of certain graded 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...

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...

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...

We notice that for a Hopf algebra H , its antipode S is both an epimorphism and a monomorphism from H to H in the category of Hopf algebras over a field. Together with the existence of Hopf algebras with non-injective or non-surjective antipode, this proves the existence of non-surjective epimorphisms and non-injective monomorphisms in the category of Hopf algebras. Using Schauenburg’s free Hop...

We classify the cosemisimple Hopf algebras whose corepresentation semi-ring is isomorphic to that of GL(2). This leads us to define a new family of Hopf algebras which generalize the quantum similitude group of a non-degenerate bilinear form. A detailed study of these Hopf algebras gives us an isomorphic classification and the description of their corepresentation categories.

William M. Singer’s theory of extensions of connected Hopf algebras is used to give a complete list of the cocommutative connected Hopf algebras over a field of positive characteristic p which have vector space dimension less than or equal to p3. The theory shows that there are exactly two noncommutative non-primitively generated Hopf algebras on the list, one of which is the Hopf algebra corre...

In an attempt to study the zero divisors in infinite Hopf algebras, we study two non-trivial examples of non-group ring infinite Hopf algebras and show that a variant of Kaplansky’s classical zero divisor conjecture holds for these two Hopf algebras.