When Does the Rational Torsion Split Off for Finitely Generated Modules

It is well known that the torsion part of any finitely generated module over the formal power series ring K[[X]] is a direct summand. In fact, K[[X]] is an algebra dual to the divided power coalgebra over K and the torsion part of any K[[X]]-module actually identifies with the rational part of that module. More generally, for a certain general enough class of coalgebras—those having only finite dimensional subcomodules—we see that the above phenomenon is preserved: the set of torsion elements of any C ^*-module is exactly the rational submodule. With this starting point in mind, given a coalgebra C we investigate when the rational submodule of any finitely generated left C ^*-module is a direct summand. We prove various properties of coalgebras C having this splitting property. Just like in the K[[X]] case, we see that standard examples of coalgebras with this property are the chain coalgebras which are coalgebras whose lattice of left (or equivalently, right, two-sided) coideals form a chain. We give some representation theoretic characterizations of chain coalgebras, which turn out to make a left-right symmetric concept. In fact, in the main result of this paper we characterize the colocal coalgebras where this splitting property holds non-trivially (i.e. infinite dimensional coalgebras) as being exactly the chain coalgebras. This characterizes the cocommutative coalgebras of this kind. Furthermore, we give characterizations of chain coalgebras in particular cases and construct various and general classes of examples of coalgebras with this splitting property.     

On radicals of module coalgebras

We introduce the notion of an idempotent radical class of module coalgebras over a bialgebra B. We prove that if R is an idempotent radical class of B-module coalgebras, then every B-module coalgebra contains a unique maximal B-submodule coalgebra in R. Moreover, a B-module coalgebra C is a member of R if, and only if, DB is in R for every simple subcoalgebra D of C. The collection of B-cocleft coalgebras and the collection of H-projective module coalgebras over a Hopf algebra H are idempotent radical classes. As applications, we use these idempotent radical classes to give another proofs for a projectivity theorem and a normal basis theorem of Schneider without assuming a bijective antipode.     

The strong Brauer group of a cocommutative coalgebra

Using strong equivalences for coalgebras we define the strong Brauer group of a cocommutative coalgebra C, which is a subgroup of the Brauer group of C. In general there is not a good relation between the Brauer group of a coalgebra and the Brauer group of the dual algebra C∗, the former is not even a torsion group. We find that this subgroups embeds in the Brauer group of C∗. A key tool in this result is the use of techniques from torsion theory. Some cases where both subgroups coincide are shown, for example, C being coreflexive.     

Equivalences of comodule categories for coalgebras over rings

In this article we defined and studied quasi-finite comodules, the cohom functors for coalgebras over rings. Linear functors between categories of comodules are also investigated and it is proved that good enough linear functors are nothing but a cotensor functor. Our main result of this work characterizes equivalences between comodule categories generalizing the Morita-Takeuchi theory to coalgebras over rings. Morita-Takeuchi contexts in our setting is defined and investigated, a correspondence between strict Morita-Takeuchi contexts and equivalences of comodule categories over the involved coalgebras is obtained. Finally, we proved that for coalgebras over QF-rings Takeuchi's representation of the cohom functor is also valid.     

The representation-theoretic rank of the doubles of quasi-quantum groups

We compute the representation-theoretic rank of a finite dimensional quasi-Hopf algebra H and of its quantum double D(H), within the rigid braided category of finite dimensional left D(H)-modules.     

Co-Frobenius corings and adjoint functors

We study co-Frobenius and more generally quasi-co-Frobenius corings over arbitrary base rings and over PF base rings in particular. We generalize some results about co-Frobenius and quasi-co-Frobenius coalgebras to the case of non-commutative base rings and give several new characterizations for co-Frobenius and more generally quasi-co-Frobenius corings, some of them are new even in the coalgebra situation. We construct Morita contexts to study Frobenius properties of corings and a second kind of Morita contexts to study adjoint pairs. Comparing both Morita contexts, we obtain our main result that characterizes quasi-co-Frobenius corings in terms of a pair of adjoint functors (F,G) such that (G,F) is locally quasi-adjoint in a sense defined in this note.     

Covering Coalgebras and Dual Non-singularity

Localisation is an important technique in ring theory and yields the construction of various rings of quotients. Colocalisation in comodule categories has been investigated by some authors (see Jara et al., Commun. Algebra, 34(8):2843–2856, 2006 and Nastasescu and Torrecillas, J. Algebra, 185:203–220, 1994). Here we look at possible coalgebra covers π : D → C that could play the rôle of a coalgebra colocalisation. Codense covers will dualise dense (or rational) extensions; a maximal codense cover construction for coalgebras with projective covers is proposed. We also look at a dual non-singularity concept for modules which turns out to be the comodule-theoretic property that turns the dual algebra of a coalgebra into a non-singular ring. As a corollary we deduce that hereditary coalgebras and hence path coalgebras are non-singular in the above sense. We also look at coprime coalgebras and Hopf algebras which are non-singular as coalgebras.     

Automorphism groups of trivial extensions

Given a split basic finite dimensional algebra A over a field, we study the relationship between the groups of categorical automorphisms of A and its trivial extension A?D(A). Our results cover all triangular algebras and all 2-nilpotent algebras whose quiver has no nontrivial oriented cycle of length ?2. In this latter as well as in the hereditary case, we give structure theorem for CAut(A?D(A)) in terms of CAut(A). As a byproduct, we get the precise relationship between the first Hochschild cohomology groups of A and A?D(A).     

Cancellation Problems and Dimension Theory

In this note, we study the global dimension of coalgebras and discuss the class of coalgebras of global dimension less or equal to 1. The coalgebras in this class, which contains all the cosemisimple coalgebras, are called hereditary coalgebras. If C is a finite dimensional coalgebra, then C is hereditary if and only if C (the convolution algebra of C) is a hereditary algebra. Any direct sum of hereditary coalgebras is hereditary too. This gives us many examples of infinite dimensional hereditary coalgebras. A coalgebra is left hereditary if and only if it is right hereditary. Moreover, there do not exist hereditary Hopf algebras of finite dimension which are not cosemisimple.     

Liftings of graded quasi-Hopf algebras with radical of prime codimension

Let p be a prime, and let RG(p) denote the set of equivalence classes of radically graded finite dimensional quasi-Hopf algebras over C, whose radical has codimension p. The purpose of this paper is to classify finite dimensional quasi-Hopf algebras A whose radical is a quasi-Hopf ideal and has codimension p; that is, A with gr(A) in RG(p), where gr(A) is the associated graded algebra taken with respect to the radical filtration on A. The main result of this paper is the following theorem: Let A be a finite dimensional quasi-Hopf algebra whose radical is a quasi-Hopf ideal of prime codimension p. Then either A is twist equivalent to a Hopf algebra, or it is twist equivalent to H(2), H_±(p), A(q), or H(32), constructed in [5] and [8]. Note that any finite tensor category whose simple objects are invertible and form a group of order p under tensor is the representation category of a quasi-Hopf algebra A as above. Thus this paper provides a classification of such categories.     

Vertex coalgebras, comodules, cocommutativity and coassociativity

We introduce the notion of vertex coalgebra, a generalization of vertex operator coalgebras. Next we investigate forms of cocommutativity, coassociativity, skew-symmetry, and an endomorphism, D^∗, which hold on vertex coalgebras. The former two properties require grading. We then discuss comodule structure. We conclude by discussing instances where graded vertex coalgebras appear, particularly as related to Primc’s vertex Lie algebra and (universal) enveloping vertex algebras.     

Morita theory for coring extensions and cleft bicomodules

A Morita context is constructed for any comodule of a coring and, more generally, for an L-C bicomodule Σ for a coring extension (D:L) of (C:A). It is related to a 2-object subcategory of the category of k-linear functors MC→MD. Strictness of the Morita context is shown to imply the Galois property of Σ as a C-comodule and a Weak Structure Theorem. Sufficient conditions are found also for a Strong Structure Theorem to hold.Cleft property of an L-C bicomodule Σ—implying strictness of the associated Morita context—is introduced. It is shown to be equivalent to being a GaloisC-comodule and isomorphic to EndC(Σ)L_⊗D, in the category of left modules for the ring EndC(Σ) and right comodules for the coring D, i.e. satisfying the normal basis property.Algebra extensions, that are cleft extensions by a Hopf algebra, a coalgebra or a Hopf algebroid, as well as cleft entwining structures (over commutative or non-commutative base rings) and cleft weak entwining structures, are shown to provide examples of cleft bicomodules.     

The Kantor-Koecher-Tits construction for Jordan coalgebras

The relationship between Jordan and Lie coalgebras is established. We prove that from any Jordan coalgebra 〈L(A), Δ〉, it is possible to construct a Lie coalgebra 〈L(A), Δ_L〉. Moreover, any dual algebra of the coalgebra 〈L(A), Δ_L〉 corresponds to a Lie algebra that can be determined from the dual algebra for (A, Δ), following the Kantor-Koecher-Tits process. The structure of subcoalgebras and coideals of the coalgebra 〈L(A), Δ_L〉 is characterized. Supported by ISF grant No. RB 6000. Translated fromAlgebra i Logika, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 173–189, March–April, 1996.     

IDEMPOTENTS AND MORITA-TAKEUCHI THEORY

ABSTRACT

We offer an approach to basic coalgebras with inspiration in the classical theory of idempotents for finite dimensional algebras. Our theory is based upon the fact that the co-hom functors associated to direct summands of the coalgebra can be easily described in terms of idempotents of the convolution algebra. Our approach is shown to be equivalent to that given by W. Chin and S. Montgomery by using co-endomorphism coalgebras of minimal injective cogenerators.     

Structure theorem for dual quasi-hopf bicomodules and its application

We present a structure theorem for dual quasi-Hopf bicomodules, and also obtain the structure theorem C ≌ D ? H for dual quasi-Hopf module coalgebras, where H is a dual quasi-Hopf algebra, C a right H-module coalgebra, and D a left H-comodule coalgebra in the tensor category ^H M induced from C, and D ? H the smash coproduct introduced by Bulacu and Nauwelaerts.     

Kummer subfields of tame division algebras over Henselian fields

By generalizing the method used by Tignol and Amitsur in [J.-P. Tignol, S.A. Amitsur, Kummer subfields of Malcev-Neumann division algebras, Israel Journal of Math. 50 (1985), 114-144], we determine necessary and sufficient conditions for an arbitrary central division algebra D over a Henselian valued field E to have Kummer subfields when the characteristic of the residue field of E does not divide the degree of D. We prove also that if D is a semiramified division algebra of degree n [resp., of prime power degree p^r] over E such that does not divide n and [resp., and p³ divides ], then D is non-cyclic [resp., D is not an elementary abelian crossed product].     

Algebras whose right nucleus is a central simple algebra

We generalize Amitsur's construction of central simple algebras over a field F which are split by field extensions possessing a derivation with field of constants F to nonassociative algebras: for every central division algebra D over a field F of characteristic zero there exists an infinite-dimensional unital nonassociative algebra whose right nucleus is D and whose left and middle nucleus are a field extension K of F splitting D, where F is algebraically closed in K.We then give a short direct proof that every p-algebra of degree m, which has a purely inseparable splitting field K of degree m and exponent one, is a differential extension of K and cyclic. We obtain finite-dimensional division algebras over a field F of characteristic $p>0$ whose right nucleus is a division p-algebra.     

Frobenius structural matrix algebras

We discuss when the incidence coalgebra of a locally finite preordered set is right co-Frobenius. As a consequence, we obtain that a structural matrix algebra over a field k is Frobenius if and only if it consists, up to a permutation of rows and columns, of diagonal blocks which are full matrix algebras over k.     

Co-Frobenius Hopf algebras and the coradical filtration

We prove that a Hopf algebra with a finite coradical filtration is co-Frobenius. We also characterize co-Frobenius Hopf algebras with coradical a Hopf subalgebra. Let H be a Hopf algebra whose coradical is a Hopf algebra. Let gr H be the associated graded coalgebra and let R be the diagram of H, c. f. [2]. Then the following are equivalent: (1) H is co-Frobenius; (2) gr H is co-Frobenius; (3) R is finite dimensional; (4) the coradical filtration of H is finite. This Theorem allows us to give systematically examples of co-Frobenius Hopf algebras, and opens the way to the classification of ample classes of such Hopf algebras. Received: 8 March 2001 / Published online: 8 November 2002 RID="*" ID="*" Parts of this work were done during visits of the second author to the University of Córdoba, Argentina, in May 2000; and of the first author to the University of Bucharest in November 2000. We thank the FOMEC and CNCSIS (Grant C12) for support to these visits. The first author also thanks ANPCyT, CONICET, Agencia Córdoba Ciencia and Secyt (UNC) for partial support. The second author was partiall y supported by Grant SM10/01 of the Research Administration of Kuwait University.     

On absolute Galois splitting fields of central simple algebras

A splitting field of a central simple algebra is said to be absolute Galois if it is Galois over some fixed subfield of the centre of the algebra. The paper proves an existence theorem for such fields over global fields with enough roots of unity. As an application, all twisted function fields and all twisted Laurent series rings over symbol algebras (or p-algebras) over global fields are crossed products. An analogous statement holds for division algebras over Henselian valued fields with global residue field.The existence of absolute Galois splitting fields in central simple algebras over global fields is equivalent to a suitable generalization of the weak Grunwald-Wang theorem, which is proved to hold if enough roots of unity are present. In general, it does not hold and counter examples have been used in noncrossed product constructions. This paper shows in particular that a certain computational difficulty involved in the construction of explicit examples of noncrossed product twisted Laurent series rings cannot be avoided by starting the construction with a symbol algebra.