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Bialgebra cohomology, pointed Hopf algebras, and deformations

Rings and Algebras 2008-05-12 v2 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We give explicit formulas for maps in a long exact sequence connecting bialgebra cohomology to Hochschild cohomology. We give a sufficient condition for the connecting homomorphism to be surjective. We apply these results to compute all bialgebra two-cocycles of certain Radford biproducts (bosonizations). These two-cocycles are precisely those associated to the finite dimensional pointed Hopf algebras in the recent classification of Andruskiewitsch and Schneider, in an interpretation of these Hopf algebras as graded bialgebra deformations of Radford biproducts.

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@article{arxiv.0704.2771,
  title  = {Bialgebra cohomology, pointed Hopf algebras, and deformations},
  author = {Mitja Mastnak and Sarah Witherspoon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.2771},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Cohomological results in the paper were significantly improved and generalized. See new abstract for details