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The Hopf automorphism group and the quantum Brauer group in braided monoidal categories

Quantum Algebra 2013-11-12 v2

Abstract

With the motivation of giving a more precise estimation of the quantum Brauer group of a Hopf algebra HH over a field kk we construct an exact sequence containing the quantum Brauer group of a Hopf algebra in a certain braided monoidal category. Let BB be a Hopf algebra in \C=HH\YD\C=_H ^H\YD, the category of Yetter-Drinfel'd modules over HH. We consider the quantum Brauer group \BQ(\C;B)\BQ(\C; B) of BB in \C\C, which is isomorphic to the usual quantum Brauer group \BQ(k;BH)\BQ(k; B\rtimes H) of the Radford biproduct Hopf algebra BHB\rtimes H. We show that under certain symmetricity condition on the braiding in \C\C there is an inner action of the Hopf automorphism group of BB on the former. We prove that the subgroup \BM(\C;B)\BM(\C; B) - the Brauer group of module algebras over BB in \C\C - is invariant under this action for a family of Radford biproduct Hopf algebras. The analogous invariance we study for \BM(k;BH)\BM(k; B\rtimes H). We apply our recent results on the latter group and generate a new subgroup of the quantum Brauer group of BHB\rtimes H. In particular, we get new information on the quantum Brauer groups of some known Hopf algebras.

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@article{arxiv.1303.3311,
  title  = {The Hopf automorphism group and the quantum Brauer group in braided monoidal categories},
  author = {Bojana Femić},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.3311},
  year   = {2013}
}

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