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Christian Kassel

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arXiv2008

The lazy homology of a Hopf algebra

To any Hopf algebra H we associate two commutative Hopf algebras, which we call the first and second lazy homology Hopf algebras of H. These algebras are related to the lazy cohomology groups based on the so-called lazy cocycles of H by universal coefficient theorems. When H is a group algebra, then its lazy homology can be expressed in terms of the 1- and 2-homology of the group. When H is a cosemisimple Hopf algebra over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, then its first lazy homology is the Hopf algebra of the universal abelian grading group of the category of corepresentations of H. We also compute the lazy homology of the Sweedler algebra.

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arXiv2007

Polynomial identities and noncommutative versal torsors

To any cleft Hopf Galois object, i.e., any algebra H[t] obtained from a Hopf algebra H by twisting its multiplication with a two-cocycle t, we attach two "universal algebras" A(H,t) and U(H,t). The algebra A(H,t) is obtained by twisting the multiplication of H with the most general two-cocycle u formally cohomologous to t. The cocycle u takes values in the field of rational functions on H. By construction, A(H,t) is a cleft H-Galois extension of a "big" commutative algebra B(H,t). Any "form" of H[t] can be obtained from A(H,t) by a specialization of B(H,t) and vice versa. If the algebra H[t] is simple, then A(H,t) is an Azumaya algebra with center B(H,t). The algebra U(H,t) is constructed using a general theory of polynomial identities that we set up for arbitrary comodule algebras; it is the universal comodule algebra in which all comodule algebra identities of H[t] are satisfied. We construct an embedding of U(H,t) into A(H,t); this embedding maps the center Z(H,t) of U(H,t) into B(H,t) when the algebra H[t] is simple. In this case, under an additional assumption, A(H,t) is isomorphic to B(H,t) \otimes_{Z(H,t)} U(H,t), thus turning A(H,t) into a central localization of U(H,t). We work out these constructions in full detail for the four-dimensional Sweedler algebra.

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arXiv2005

Homotopy formulas for cyclic groups acting on rings

The positive cohomology groups of a finite group acting on a ring vanish when the ring has a norm-one element. In this note we give explicit homotopies on the level of cochains when the group is cyclic, which allows us to express any cocycle of a cyclic group as the coboundary of an explicit cochain. The formulas in this note are closely related to the effective problems considered in previous joint work with Eli Aljadeff.

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arXiv2005

Quantum principal bundles up to homotopy equivalence

We translate some fundamental properties satisfied by topological principal bundles into the setting of Hopf-Galois extensions. The properties are: functoriality, homotopy, and triviality. The main new concept of the paper is the homotopy equivalence of Hopf-Galois extensions. We work in the particular case where the subalgebra of coinvariants is central but without any restriction on the Hopf algebras coacting on the quantum principal bundle. We examine in detail the case when the Hopf algebra is one of Sweedler or Taft's finite-dimensional Hopf algebras.

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arXiv2005

Sturmian morphisms, the braid group B_4, Christoffel words and bases of F_2

We give a presentation by generators and relations of a certain monoid generating a subgroup of index two in the group Aut(F_2) of automorphisms of the rank two free group F_2 and show that it can be realized as a monoid in the group B_4 of braids on four strings. In the second part we use Christoffel words to construct an explicit basis of F_2 lifting any given basis of the free abelian group Z^2. We further give an algorithm allowing to decide whether two elements of F_2 form a basis or not. We also show that, under suitable conditions, a basis has a unique conjugate consisting of two palindromes.

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arXiv2005

Norm formulas for finite groups and induction from elementary abelian subgroups

It is known that the norm map N_G for a finite group G acting on a ring R is surjective if and only if for every elementary abelian subgroup E of G the norm map N_E for E is surjective. Equivalently, there exists an element x_G in R with N_G(x_G) = 1 if and only for every elementary abelian subgroup E there exists an element x_E in R such that N_E(x_E) = 1. When the ring R is noncommutative, it is an open problem to find an explicit formula for x_G in terms of the elements x_E. In this paper we present a method to solve this problem for an arbitrary group G and an arbitrary group action on a ring.Using this method, we obtain a complete solution of the problem for the quaternion and the dihedral 2-groups,and for a group of order 27. We also show how to reduce the problem to the class of (almost) extraspecial p-groups.

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arXiv2004

Homotopy theory of Hopf Galois extensions

We introduce the concept of homotopy equivalence for Hopf Galois extensions and make a systematic study of it. As an application we determine all H-Galois extensions up to homotopy equivalence in the case when H is a Drinfeld-Jimbo quantum group.

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arXiv2000

Explicit elements of norm one for cyclic groups

Let G be a cyclic p-group of order p^n acting by automorphisms on a (non-necessarily commutative) ring R. Suppose there is an element x in R such that (1 + t + ... + t^{p-1})(x) = 1, where t is an element of order p in G. We show how to construct an element y in R such that (1 + s + ... + s^{p^n-1})(y) = 1, where s is a generator of G.

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arXiv1999

The Hall algebra of the category of coherent sheaves on the projective line

To an abelian category A of homological dimension 1 satisfying certain finiteness conditions, one can associate an algebra, called the Hall algebra. Kapranov studied this algebra when A is the category of coherent sheaves over a smooth projective curve defined over a finite field, and observed analogies with quantum affine algebras. We recover here in an elementary way his results in the case when the curve is the projective line.

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arXiv1998

Biquantization of Lie bialgebras

For any finite-dimensional Lie bialgebra $g$, we construct a bialgebra $A_{u,v}(g)$ over the ring $C[u][[v]]$, which quantizes simultaneously the universal enveloping bialgebra $U({g})$, the bialgebra dual to $U(g^*)$, and the symmetric bialgebra $S(g)$. We call $A_{u,v}(g)$ a biquantization of $S(g)$. We show that the bialgebra $A_{u,v}(g^*)$ quantizing $U(g^*)$, $U(g)^*$, and $S(g^*)$ is essentially dual to the bialgebra obtained from $A_{u,v}(g)$ by exchanging $u$ and $v$. Thus, $A_{u,v}(g)$ contains all information about the quantization of $g$. Our construction extends Etingof and Kazhdan's one-variable quantization of $U(g)$.

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arXiv1997

Algèbre homologique des N-complexes et homologie de Hochschild aux racines de l'unité

We set up a homological algebra for N-complexes, which are graded modules together with a degree -1 endomorphism d satisfying d^N=0. We define Tor- and Ext-groups for N-complexes and we compute them in terms of their classical counterparts (N=2). As an application, we get an alternative definition of the Hochschild homology of an associative algebra out of an N-complex whose differential is based on a primitive N-th root of unity.

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