Finite generation of some cohomology rings via twisted tensor product and Anick resolutions

Over a field of prime characteristic $p>2$, we prove that the cohomology rings of some pointed Hopf algebras of dimension $p^3$ are finitely generated. These are Hopf algebras arising in the ongoing classification of finite dimensional pointed Hopf algebras in positive characteristic. They include bosonizations of Nichols algebras of Jordan type in a general setting. When $p=3$, we also consider their Hopf algebra liftings, that is Hopf algebras whose associated graded algebra with respect to the coradical filtration is given by such a bosonization. Our proofs are based on an algebra filtration and a lemma of Friedlander and Suslin, drawing on both twisted tensor product resolutions and Anick resolutions to locate the needed permanent cocycles in May spectral sequences.     

Character tables and normal left coideal subalgebras

We continue studying properties of semisimple Hopf algebras H over algebraically closed fields of characteristic 0 resulting from their generalized character tables. We show that the generalized character table of H reflects normal left coideal subalgebras of H. These are the Hopf analogues of normal subgroups in the sense that they arise from Hopf quotients. We apply these ideas to prove Hopf analogues of known results in group theory. Among the rest we prove that columns of the character table are orthogonal and that all entries are algebraic integers. We analyze ‘semi-kernels’ and their relations to the character table. We prove a full analogue of the Burnside–Brauer theorem for almost cocommutative H. We also prove the Hopf algebras analogue of the following (Burnside) theorem: If G is a non-abelian simple group then {1} is the only conjugacy class of G which has prime power order.     

Isomorphism classes of finite dimensional connected Hopf algebras in positive characteristic

We classify all finite-dimensional connected Hopf algebras with large abelian primitive spaces. We show that they are Hopf algebra extensions of restricted enveloping algebras of certain restricted Lie algebras. For any abelian matched pair associated with these extensions, we construct a cohomology group, which classifies all the extensions up to equivalence. Moreover, we present a 1–1 correspondence between the isomorphism classes and a group quotient of the cohomology group deleting some exceptional points, where the group respects the automorphisms of the abelian matched pair and the exceptional points represent those restricted Lie algebra extensions.     

Isomorphism problems for Hopf–Galois structures on separable field extensions

Let $L/K$ be a finite separable extension of fields whose Galois closure $E/K$ has Galois group G. Greither and Pareigis use Galois descent to show that a Hopf algebra giving a Hopf–Galois structure on $L/K$ has the form $E{[N]}^G$ for some group N of order $[L:K]$. We formulate criteria for two such Hopf algebras to be isomorphic as Hopf algebras, and provide a variety of examples. In the case that the Hopf algebras in question are commutative, we also determine criteria for them to be isomorphic as K-algebras. By applying our results, we complete a detailed analysis of the distinct Hopf algebras and K-algebras that appear in the classification of Hopf–Galois structures on a cyclic extension of degree $p^n$, for p an odd prime number.     

Copointed Hopf algebras over S4

We study the realizations of certain braided vector spaces of rack type as Yetter–Drinfeld modules over a cosemisimple Hopf algebra H. We apply the strategy developed in [1] to compute their liftings and use these results to obtain the classification of finite-dimensional copointed Hopf algebras over ${\mathbb{S}}_4$.     

Classifying bicrossed products of two Taft algebras

We classify all Hopf algebras which factor through two Taft algebras ${\mathbb{T}}_{n^2}(\stackrel{￣}{q})$ and respectively $T_{m^2}(q)$. To start with, all possible matched pairs between the two Taft algebras are described: if $\stackrel{￣}{q}\ne q^{n?1}$ then the matched pairs are in bijection with the group of d-th roots of unity in k, where $d=(m,n)$ while if $\stackrel{￣}{q}=q^{n?1}$ then besides the matched pairs above we obtain an additional family of matched pairs indexed by $k^{?}$. The corresponding bicrossed products (double cross product in Majid's terminology) are explicitly described by generators and relations and classified. As a consequence of our approach, we are able to compute the number of isomorphism types of these bicrossed products as well as to describe their automorphism groups.     

Lifting and recombination techniques for absolute factorization

In the vein of recent algorithmic advances in polynomial factorization based on lifting and recombination techniques, we present new faster algorithms for computing the absolute factorization of a bivariate polynomial. The running time of our probabilistic algorithm is less than quadratic in the dense size of the polynomial to be factored.     

Semisimple Hopf actions on commutative domains

Let H be a semisimple (so, finite dimensional) Hopf algebra over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic zero and let A be a commutative domain over k. We show that if A arises as an H-module algebra via an inner faithful H-action, then H must be a group algebra. This answers a question of E. Kirkman and J. Kuzmanovich and partially answers a question of M. Cohen.     

Existence of Hopf subalgebras of GK-dimension two

Let H be a pointed Hopf algebra over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. If H is a domain with finite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension greater than or equal to two, then H contains a Hopf subalgebra of Gelfand-Kirillov dimension two.     

Basic r-symmetric tropical polynomials

We consider tropical polynomials in nr variables, divided into n blocks of r variables, and especially r-symmetric tropical polynomials, which are invariant under the action of the symmetric group $S_n$ on the blocks. We define a set of basic r-symmetric tropical polynomials and show that the basic 2-symmetric tropical polynomials give coordinates on ${\mathbb{R}}^{2n}/S_n$ more efficiently than known polynomials. Moreover, we present special cases for $r\ge 3$ where the basic polynomials separate orbits.     

Lifting endomorphisms of formal A-modules over finite fields

Lubin conjectures that for an invertible series to commute with a noninvertible series with only simple roots of iterates, two such commuting power series must be endomorphisms of a single formal group. In this paper, we show that if the reduction of these two commuting power series are endomorphisms of a formal group, then themselves are endomorphisms of a formal group.     

Meyer's signature cocycle and hyperelliptic fibrations

We show that the cohomology class represented by Meyer's signature cocycle is of order in the 2-dimensional cohomology group of the hyperelliptic mapping class group of genus . By using the -cochain cobounding the signature cocycle, we extend the local signature for singular fibers of genus 2 fibrations due to Y. Matsumoto [18] to that for singular fibers of hyperelliptic fibrations of arbitrary genus and calculate its values on Lefschetz singular fibers. Finally, we compare our local signature with another local signature which arises from algebraic geometry. Received: 6 August 1998 / in final form: 24 February 1999     

Indecomposable decomposition of tensor products of modules over Drinfeld doubles of Taft algebras

In this paper, we study the tensor product structure of the category of finite dimensional modules over Drinfeld doubles of Taft Hopf algebras. Tensor product decomposition rules for all finite dimensional indecomposable modules are explicitly given.     

Monoidal structures for N-complexes

We classify the monoidal structures for the category of N-complexes which respect the graded structure.     

Centers,cocenters and simple quantum groups

We define the notion of a (linearly reductive) center for a linearly reductive quantum group, and show that the quotient of a such a quantum group by its center is simple whenever its fusion semiring is free in the sense of Banica and Vergnioux. We also prove that the same is true of free products of quantum groups under very mild non-degeneracy conditions. Several natural families of compact quantum groups, some with non-commutative fusion semirings and hence very “far from classical”, are thus seen to be simple. Examples include quotients of free unitary groups by their centers, recovering previous work, as well as quotients of quantum reflection groups by their centers.     

Cocycle deformations and Galois objects for semisimple Hopf algebras of dimension p3 and pq2

Let p and q be distinct prime numbers. We study the Galois objects and cocycle deformations of the noncommutative, noncocommutative, semisimple Hopf algebras of odd dimension $p^3$ and of dimension $p{q}^2$. We obtain that the $p+1$ non-isomorphic self-dual semisimple Hopf algebras of dimension $p^3$ classified by Masuoka have no non-trivial cocycle deformations, extending his previous results for the 8-dimensional Kac–Paljutkin Hopf algebra. This is done as a consequence of the classification of categorical Morita equivalence classes among semisimple Hopf algebras of odd dimension $p^3$, established by the third-named author in an appendix.