English

Hopf algebras, tetramodules, and n-fold monoidal categories

Category Theory 2010-02-18 v2 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

The abelian category of tetramodules over an associative bialgebra AA is related with the Gerstenhaber-Schack (GS) cohomology as Ext\Tetra(A,A)=H\GS(A)Ext_\Tetra(A,A)=H_\GS(A). We construct a 2-fold monoidal structure on the category of tetramodules of a bialgebra. Suppose CC is an abelian nn-fold monoidal category with the unit object AA. We prove, provided some condition (*), that ExtC(A,A)Ext_C(A,A) is an (n+1)(n+1)-algebra. In the case of bialgebras this condition (*) is satisfied when AA is a Hopf algebra. Finally, the GS cohomology of a Hopf algebra is a 3-algebra. As well, we consider this kind of questions of (bi)algebras over integers. Let AA be an associative algebra over ZZ flat over ZZ. We prove that the operad acting on its Hochschild cohomology is the operad of stable homotopy groups of the little discs operad.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0907.3335,
  title  = {Hopf algebras, tetramodules, and n-fold monoidal categories},
  author = {Boris Shoikhet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.3335},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

51 page, v2: sections 3.5 and 4.4 are much improved, proof of Key-lemma 3.9 is completed, some typos are corrected