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Double categories and quantum groupoids

Quantum Algebra 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We give the construction of a class of weak Hopf algebras (or quantum groupoids) associated to a matched pair of groupoids and certain cocycle data. This generalizes a now well-known construction for Hopf algebras, first studied by G. I. Kac in the sixties. Our approach is based on the notion of double groupoids, as introduced by Ehresmann.

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@article{arxiv.math/0308228,
  title  = {Double categories and quantum groupoids},
  author = {Nicolas Andruskiewitsch and Sonia Natale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0308228},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

34 pages, amslatex. The statement in Proposition 3.10 has been corrected