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On epimorphisms and monomorphisms of Hopf algebras

Rings and Algebras 2009-12-29 v2 Category Theory

Abstract

We provide examples of non-surjective epimorphisms HKH\to K in the category of Hopf algebras over a field, even with the additional requirement that KK have bijective antipode, by showing that the universal map from a Hopf algebra to its enveloping Hopf algebra with bijective antipode is an epimorphism in \halg\halg, although it is known that it need not be surjective. Dual results are obtained for the problem of whether monomorphisms in the category of Hopf algebras are necessarily injective. We also notice that these are automatically examples of non-faithfully flat and respectively non-faithfully coflat maps of Hopf algebras.

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@article{arxiv.0907.2881,
  title  = {On epimorphisms and monomorphisms of Hopf algebras},
  author = {Alexandru Chirvasitu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2881},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

17 pages; changed the abstract, revised introduction, shortened some proofs; to appear in J. Algebra