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Three variations on the linear independence of grouplikes in a coalgebra

Quantum Algebra 2021-08-03 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

The grouplike elements of a coalgebra over a field are known to be linearly independent over said field. Here we prove three variants of this result. One is a generalization to coalgebras over a commutative ring (in which case the linear independence has to be replaced by a weaker statement). Another is a stronger statement that holds (un-der stronger assumptions) in a commutative bialgebra. The last variant is a linear independence result for characters (as opposed to grouplike elements) of a bialgebra.

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@article{arxiv.2009.10970,
  title  = {Three variations on the linear independence of grouplikes in a coalgebra},
  author = {Gérard Duchamp and Darij Grinberg and Vincel Minh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.10970},
  year   = {2021}
}