EXTENDING ACTIONS OF HOPF ALGEBRAS TO ACTIONS OF THE DRINFEL'D DOUBLE

Mathematicians have long thought of symmetry in terms of actions of groups, but group actions have proven too restrictive in some cases to give an interesting picture of the symmetry of some mathematical objects, e.g. some noncommutative algebras. It is generally agreed that the right generalizations of group actions to solve this problem are actions of Hopf algebras, the study of which has exploded in the years since the publication of Sweedler's Hopf algebras in 1969. Different varieties of Hopf algebras have been useful in many fields of mathematics. For instance, in his "Quantum Groups" paper, Vladimir Drinfel'd introduced quasitriangular Hopf algebras, a class of Hopf algebras whose modules each provide a solution to the quantum Yang-Baxter equation. Solutions of this equation are a source of knot and link invariants and in physics, determine if a one-dimensional quantum system is integrable. Drinfel'd also introduced the Drinfel'd double construction, which produces for each finite-dimensional Hopf algebra a quasitriangular one in which the original embeds. This thesis is motivated by work of Susan Montgomery and Hans-Jürgen Schneider on actions of the Taft (Hopf) algebras T_n(q) and extending such actions to the Drinfel'd double D(T_n(q)). In 2001, Montgomery and Schneider classified all non-trivial actions of T_n(q) on an n-dimensional associative algebra A. It turns out that A must be isomorphic to the group algebra of grouplike elements kG(T_n(q)). They further determined that each such action extends uniquely to an action of the Drinfel'd double D(T_n(q)) on A, effectively showing that each action has a unique compatible coaction. We generalize Montgomery and Schneider's results to Hopf algebras related to the Taft algebras: the Sweedler (Hopf) algebra, bosonizations of 1-dimensional quantum linear spaces, generalized Taft algebras, and the Frobenius-Lusztig kernel u_q(sl_2). For each Hopf algebra H, we determine 1. whether there are non-trivial actions of H on A, 2. the possible H-actions on A, and 3. the possible D(H)-actions on A extending an H-action and how many there are.

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Temple University. Libraries

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Cline, Zachary Kirk

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Lorenz, Martin, 1951-

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Walton, Chelsea
• Letzter, E. S. (Edward S.), 1958-
• Futer, David
• Riseborough, Peter

• Mathematics
• Drinfel'd double
• Hopf algebra
• Quantum linear space
• Taft algebra

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