It was conjectured in \texttt{\small arXiv:1606.02521} that a Nichols algebra of diagonal type with finite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension has finite (generalized) root system. We prove the conjecture assuming that the rank is 2. We also show that a Nichols algebra of affine Cartan type has infinite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension.
The Nichols algebras of diagonal type with finite root system are either of standard, super or (yet) unidentified type. A concrete description of the defining relations of all those Nichols algebras was given in \cite{A-exp presentation}. In the present paper we use this result to give an explicit presentation of all Nichols algebras of unidentified type.
Let $H$ be the quantum double of a Nichols algebra of diagonal type. We compute the $R$-matrix of 3-uples of modules for general finite-dimensional highest weight modules over $H$. We calculate also a multiplicative formula for the universal $R$-matrix when $H$ is finite dimensional.
This paper contributes to the proof of the conjecture posed in arXiv:1606.02521, stating that a Nichols algebra of diagonal type with finite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension has finite (generalized) root system. We prove the conjecture assuming that the rank is 3 or that the braiding is of Cartan type.
This is a survey on Nichols algebras of diagonal type with finite dimension, or more generally with arithmetic root system. The knowledge of these algebras is the cornerstone of the classification program of pointed Hopf algebras with finite dimension, or finite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension; and their structure should be indispensable for the understanding of the representation theory, the computation of the various cohomologies, and many other aspects of finite dimensional pointed Hopf algebras. These Nichols algebras were classified in [H-classif RS] as a notable application of the notions of …
Let $\mathcal{B}_\mathfrak{q}$ be a finite-dimensional Nichols algebra of diagonal type corresponding to a matrix $\mathfrak{q}$. We consider the graded dual $\mathcal{L}_{\mathfrak{q}}$ of the distinguished pre-Nichols algebra $\widetilde{\mathcal{B}}_{\mathfrak{q}}$ from [A3] and the divided powers algebra $\mathcal{U}_{\mathfrak{q}}$, a suitable Drinfeld double of $\mathcal{L}_{\mathfrak{q}} # \mathbf{k} \mathbb{Z}^θ$. We provide basis and presentations by generators and relations of $\mathcal{L}_{\mathfrak{q}}$ and $\mathcal{U}_{\mathfrak{q}}$, and prove that they are noetherian and have f…
The method of subquotients is developed and used to determine all finite dimensional rank 2 Nichols algebras of diagonal type over an arbitrary field of characteristic zero. Key Words: Hopf algebra, Nichols algebra
Let ${\mathcal B}_{\mathfrak{q}}$ be a finite-dimensional Nichols algebra of diagonal type with braiding matrix $\mathfrak{q}$, let $\mathcal{L}_{\mathfrak{q}}$ be the corresponding Lusztig algebra as in arXiv:1501.04518 and let $\operatorname{Fr}_{\mathfrak{q}}: \mathcal{L}_{\mathfrak{q}} \to U(\mathfrak{n}^{\mathfrak{q}})$ be the corresponding quantum Frobenius map as in arXiv:1603.09387. We prove that the finite-dimensional Lie algebra $\mathfrak{n}^{\mathfrak{q}}$ is either 0 or else the positive part of a semisimple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}^{\mathfrak{q}}$ which is determined for each $\…
We determine the multiplicities of a class of roots for Nichols algebras of diagonal type of rank two, and identify the corresponding root vectors. Our analysis is based on a precise description of the relations of the Nichols algebra in the corresponding degrees.
Over fields of arbitrary characteristic we classify all rank three Nichols algebras of diagonal type with a finite root system. Our proof uses the classification of the finite Weyl groupoids of rank three.
We classify finite-dimensional pointed Hopf algebras with abelian coradical, up to isomorphism, and show that they are cocycle deformations of the associated graded Hopf algebra. More generally, for any braided vector space of diagonal type $V$ with a principal realization in the category of Yetter-Drinfeld modules of a cosemisimple Hopf algebra $H$ and such that the Nichols algebra $\mathfrak{B}(V)$ is finite-dimensional, thus presented by a finite set $\mathcal G$ of relations, we define a family of Hopf algebras $\mathfrak{u}(\boldsymbolλ)$, $\boldsymbolλ\in \Bbbk^{\mathcal G}$, which are c…
Nichols algebras are fundamental objects in the construction of quantized enveloping algebras and in the classification of pointed Hopf algebras by lifting method of Andruskiewitsch and Schneider. Arithmetic root systems are invariants of Nichols algebras of diagonal type with a certain finiteness property. In the present paper, all rank 4 Nichols algebras of diagonal type with a finite arithmetic root system over fields of arbitrary characteristic are classified. Our proof uses the classification of the finite arithmetic root systems of rank 4.
In this paper, our main aim is to determine the multiplicities of a class of roots for Nichols algebra of diagonal type over fields of arbitrary characteristic, which is a generalization of the results on the multiplicities of these roots over fields of characteristic zero obtained by I. Heckenberber and the author.
Yetter--Drinfel'd modules of diagonal type admit an equivalence relation which conjecturally preserves dimension and Gel'fand--Kirillov dimension of the corresponding Nichols algebras. This relation is determined explicitly for all rank 2 Yetter--Drinfeld modules where the Gel'fand--Kirillov dimension is known to be finite. Key Words: Brandt groupoid, Hopf algebra, pseudo-reflections, Weyl group
This paper is devoted to explore the freeness of Nichols algebras of diagonal type and to determine the dimension of the kernel of the shuffle map considered as an operator acting on the free algebra. Our proof is based on an inequality for the number of Lyndon words and on an identity for the shuffle map. For a particular family of examples, the freeness of the Nichols algebra is characterized in terms of solutions of a quadratic diophantine equation.
Nichols algebras naturally appear in the classification of finite dimensional pointed Hopf algebras. Assuming only that the base field has characteristic zero several new finite dimensional rank 2 Nichols algebras of diagonal type are listed. Each of them is described in terms of generators and relations. A Poincaré--Birkhoff--Witt basis of all of these Nichols algebras is given and their dimension is computed. Together with the continuation of this paper this gives an answer to a question of Andruskiewitsch. Key Words: Hopf algebra, Lyndon words, full binary tree
We obtain a presentation by generators and relations of any Nichols algebra of diagonal type with finite root system. We prove that the defining ideal is finitely generated. The proof is based in Kharchenko's theory of PBW basis of Lyndon words. We prove that the lexicographic order on Lyndon words is convex for such PBW generators and so the PBW basis is orthogonal with respect to the canonical non-degenerate form associated to the Nichols algebra.
The theory of Nichols algebras of diagonal type is known to be closely related to that of semisimple Lie algebras. In this paper the connection between both theories is made closer. For any Nichols algebra of diagonal type invertible transformations are introduced, which remind one of the action of the Weyl group on the root system associated to a semisimple Lie algebra. They give rise to the definition of a Brandt groupoid. As an application an alternative proof of classification results of Rosso, Andruskiewitsch, and Schneider is obtained without using any technical assumptions on the braidi…
Between the braided vector spaces of diagonal type there exist some families whose associated Nichols algebras are infinite dimensional but with finite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension, called one-parameter families. We show that every pre-Nichols algebra of finite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension of this kind with connected diagram is necessarily the corresponding Nichols algebra, up to few exceptions. For each one of these exceptions we present a proper pre-Nichols algebra by generators and relations, and prove that it is the corresponding eminent pre-Nichols algebra. This paper essentially ends the det…
Let $(V,c)$ be a finite-dimensional braided vector space of diagonal type. We show that the Gelfand Kirillov dimension of the Nichols algebra $\mathfrak{B}(V)$ is finite if and only if the corresponding root system is finite, that is $\mathfrak{B}(V)$ admits a PBW basis with a finite number of generators. This had been conjectured in arXiv:1606.02521 and proved for $\dim V=2,3$ in arXiv:1803.08804, arXiv:2106.10143 respectively.
In a vertex algebra setting, we consider non-local screening operators associated to the basis of any non-integral lattice. We have previously shown that, under certain restrictions, these screening operators satisfy the relations of a quantum shuffle algebra or Nichols algebra associated to a diagonal braiding, which encodes the non-locality and non-integrality. In the present article, we take all finite-dimensional diagonal Nichols algebras, as classified by Heckenberger, and find all lattice realizations of the braiding that are compatible with reflections. Usually, the realizations are uni…
We contribute to the classification of Hopf algebras with finite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension, GK-dimension for short, through the study of Nichols algebras over $\mathbb{D}_{\infty}$, the infinite dihedral group. We find all the irreducible Yetter-Drinfeld modules $V$ over $\mathbb{D}_{\infty}$, and determine which Nichols algebras $\mathcal{B}(V)$ of $V$ are finite GK-dimensional.
This paper is devoted to understanding the defining ideal of a Nichols algebra from the decomposition of specific elements in the group algebra of braid groups. A family of primitive elements are found and algorithms are proposed. To prove the main result, the differential algebra of a Nichols algebra is constructed. Moreover, another point of view on Serre relations is provided.
We prove that finite GK-dimensional pre-Nichols algebras of super and standard type are quotients of the corresponding distinguished pre-Nichols algebras, except when the braiding matrix is of type super A and the dimension of the braided vector space is three. For these two exceptions we explicitly construct substitutes as braided central extensions of the corresponding pre-Nichols algebras by a polynomial ring in one variable. Via bosonization this gives new examples of finite GK-dimensional Hopf algebras.
Let $V$ be a braided vector space of diagonal type. Let $\mathfrak B(V)$, $\mathfrak L^-(V)$ and $\mathfrak L(V)$ be the Nichols algebra, Nichols Lie algebra and Nichols braided Lie algebra over $V$, respectively. We show that a monomial belongs to $\mathfrak L(V)$ if and only if that this monomial is connected. We obtain the basis for $\mathfrak L(V)$ of arithmetic root systems and the dimension for $\mathfrak L(V)$ of finite Cartan type. We give the sufficient and necessary conditions for $\mathfrak B(V) = F\oplus \mathfrak L^-(V)$ and $\mathfrak L^-(V)= \mathfrak L(V)$. We obtain an explici…
Let $R$ be a Nichols algebra of Hecke type. In this paper, we show that if $R$ is Noetherian and of finite global dimension, then $R$ has a rigid dualizing complex. We then give a necessary and sufficient condition for $R$ to be a Calabi-Yau algebra.
We study deformations of graded braided bialgebras using cohomological methods. In particular, we show that many examples of Nichols algebras, including the finite-dimensional ones arising in the Andruskiewitsch-Schneider program of classification of pointed Hopf algebras, are rigid. This result can be regarded as nonexistence of "braided Lie algebras" with nontrivial bracket.
We study graded right coideal subalgebras of Nichols algebras of semisimple Yetter-Drinfeld modules. Assuming that the Yetter-Drinfeld module admits all reflections and the Nichols algebra is decomposable, we construct an injective order preserving and order reflecting map between morphisms of the Weyl groupoid and graded right coideal subalgebras of the Nichols algebra. Here morphisms are ordered with respect to right Duflo order and right coideal subalgebras are ordered with respect to inclusion. If the Weyl groupoid is finite, then we prove that the Nichols algebra is decomposable and the a…
This is a contribution to the classification of finite-dimensional Hopf algebras over an algebraically closed field $\Bbbk$ of characteristic 0. Concretely, we show that a finite-dimensional Hopf algebra whose Hopf coradical is basic is a lifting of a Nichols algebra of a semisimple Yetter-Drinfeld module and we explain how to classify Nichols algebras of this kind. We provide along the way new examples of Nichols algebras and Hopf algebras with finite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension.
We give an explicit and essentially minimal list of defining relations of a Nichols algebra of diagonal type with finite root system. This list contains the well-known quantum Serre relations but also many new variations. A conjecture by Andruskiewitsch and Schneider states that any finite-dimensional pointed Hopf algebra over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero is generated as an algebra by its group-like and skew-primitive elements. As an application of our main result, we prove the conjecture when the group of group-like elements is abelian.
We formally define and study the distinguished pre-Nichols algebra $\widetilde{\mathcal{B}}(V)$ of a braided vector space of diagonal type $V$ with finite-dimensional Nichols algebra $\mathcal{B}(V)$. The algebra $\widetilde{\mathcal{B}}(V)$ is presented by fewer relations than $\mathcal{B}(V)$, so it is intermediate between the tensor algebra $T(V)$ and $\mathcal{B}(V)$. Prominent examples of distinguished pre-Nichols algebras are the positive parts of quantized enveloping (super)algebras and their multiparametric versions. We prove that these algebras give rise to new examples of Noetherian …
We compute the finite-dimensional Nichols algebras over the sum of two simple Yetter-Drinfeld modules V and W over non-abelian quotients of a certain central extension of the dihedral group of eight elements or SL(2,3), and such that the Weyl groupoid of the pair (V,W) is finite. These central extensions appear in the classification of non-elementary finite-dimensional Nichols algebras with finite Weyl groupoid of rank two. We deduce new information on the structure of primitive elements of finite-dimensional Nichols algebras over groups.
We classify infinite-dimensional decomposable braided vector spaces arising from abelian groups whose components are either points or blocks such that the corresponding Nichols algebras have finite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension. In particular we exhibit examples with $\operatorname{GKdim} = n$ for any natural number $n$.
We show that except in several cases conjugacy classes of classical Weyl groups $W(B_n)$ and $W(D_n)$ are of type {\rm D}. We prove that except in three cases Nichols algebras of irreducible Yetter-Drinfeld ({\rm YD} in short )modules over the classical Weyl groups are infinite dimensional.
Let $\mathcal{B}_{\mathfrak{q}}$ be a finite-dimensional Nichols algebra of diagonal type corresponding to a matrix $\mathfrak{q} \in \mathbf{k}^{θ\times θ}$, where $\mathbf{k}$ is an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. Let $\mathcal{L}_{\mathfrak{q}}$ be the Lusztig algebra associated to $\mathcal{B}_{\mathfrak{q}}$, see http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04518. We present $\mathcal{L}_{\mathfrak{q}}$ as an extension (as braided Hopf algebras) of $\mathcal{B}_{\mathfrak{q}}$ by $\mathfrak Z_{\mathfrak{q}}$ where $\mathfrak Z_{\mathfrak{q}}$ is isomorphic to the universal enveloping algebra…
We classify all groups G and all pairs (V,W) of absolutely simple Yetter-Drinfeld modules over G such that the support of the direct sum of V and W generates G, the square of the braiding between V and W is not the identity, and the Nichols algebra of the direct sum of V and W admits a finite root system. As a byproduct, we determine the dimensions of such Nichols algebras, and several new families of finite-dimensional Nichols algebras are obtained. Our main tool is the Weyl groupoid of pairs of absolutely simple Yetter-Drinfeld modules over groups.
In this article, we explicitly construct new finite-dimensional, link-indecomposable Nichols algebras with Dynkin diagrams of type An,Cn,Dn,E6,E7,E8,F4 over any group G with commutator subgroup isomorphic to Z_2.The construction is generic in the sense that the type just depends on the rank and center of G, and thus positively answers for all groups of this class a question raised by Susan Montgomory in 1995 [Mont95][AS02]. Our construction uses the new notion of a covering Nichols algebra as a special case of a covering Hopf algebra [Len12] and produces non-faithful Nichols algebras. However,…
We complete the classification of Hopf algebras whose infinitesimal braiding is a principal Yetter-Drinfeld realization of a braided vector space of Cartan type $G_2$ over a cosemisimple Hopf algebra. We develop a general formula for a class of liftings in which the quantum Serre relations hold. We give a detailed explanation of the procedure for finding the relations, based on the recent work of Andruskiewitsch, Angiono and Rossi Bertone.
We describe how to find quantum determinants and antipode formulas from braided vector spaces using the FRT-construction and finite-dimensional Nichols algebras. It generalizes the construction of quantum function algebras using quantum grassmanian algebras. Given a finite-dimensional Nichols algebra B, our method provides a Hopf algebra H such that B is a braided Hopf algebra in the category of H-comodules. It also serves as source to produce Hopf algebras generated by cosemisimple subcoalgebras, which are of interest for the generalized lifting method. We give several examples, among them qu…
The concept of arithmetic root systems is introduced. It is shown that there is a one-to-one correspondence between arithmetic root systems and Nichols algebras of diagonal type having a finite set of (restricted) Poincare'-Birkhoff-Witt generators. This has strong consequences for both objects. As an application all rank 2 Nichols algebras of diagonal type having a finite set of (restricted) Poincare'-Birkhoff-Witt generators are determined. Key Words: Brandt groupoid, Hopf algebra, pseudo-reflections, Weyl group
In this paper, the author gives a complete set of simple Yetter-Drinfeld modules over Suzuki algebra $A_{N\,2n+1}^{μλ}$ and investigates the Nichols algebras over those irreducible Yetter-Drinfeld modules. The finite dimensional Nichols algebras of diagonal type are of Cartan type $A_1$, $A_1\times A_1$, $A_2$, Super type ${A}_{2}(q;I_2)$ and the Nichols algebra $\mathfrak{ufo}(8)$. And the involved finite dimensional Nichols algebras of non-diagonal type are $12$, $4m$ and $m^2$ dimensional. The left three unsolved cases are set as open problems.
Classifying partial (co)actions of Taft and Nichols Hopf algebras on their base fields
Instituto Federal Sul-rio-grandense(南里奥格兰德联邦学院);Universidade Federal do Rio Grande(里奥格兰德联邦大学);IME, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul(里约格兰德州立大学数学与统计学院)
We show that every finite GK-dimensional pre-Nichols algebra for braidings of diagonal type with connected diagram of modular, supermodular or unidentified type is a quotient of the distinguished pre-Nichols algebra introduced by the first-named author, up to two exceptions. For both of these exceptional cases, we provide a pre-Nichols algebra that substitutes the distinguished one in the sense that it projects onto all finite GK-dimensional pre-Nichols algebras. We build these two substitutes as non-trivial central extensions with finite GK-dimension of the corresponding distinguished pre-Nic…
In the structure theory of quantized enveloping algebras, the algebra isomorphisms determined by Lusztig led to the first general construction of PBW bases of these algebras. Also, they have important applications to the representation theory of these and related algebras. In the present paper the Drinfel'd double for a class of graded Hopf algebras is investigated. Various quantum algebras, including multiparameter quantizations of semisimple Lie algebras and of Lie superalgebras, are covered by the given definition. For these Drinfel'd doubles Lusztig maps are defined. It is shown that these…
We establish the relationship among Nichols algebras, Nichols braided Lie algebras and Nichols Lie algebras. We prove two results: (i) Nichols algebra $\mathfrak B(V)$ is finite-dimensional if and only if Nichols braided Lie algebra $\mathfrak L(V)$ is finite-dimensional if there does not exist any $m$-infinity element in $\mathfrak B(V)$; (ii) Nichols Lie algebra $\mathfrak L^-(V)$ is infinite dimensional if $ D^-$ is infinite. We give the sufficient conditions for Nichols braided Lie algebra $\mathfrak L(V)$ to be a homomorphic image of a braided Lie algebra generated by $V$ with defining re…
After the classification of the finite-dimensional Nichols algebras of diagonal type arXiv:math/0411477, arXiv:math/0605795, the determination of its defining relations arXiv:1008.4144, arXiv:1104.0268, and the verification of the generation in degree one conjecture arXiv:1104.0268, there is still one step missing in the classification of complex finite-dimensional Hopf algebras with abelian group, without restrictions on the order of the latter: the computation of all deformations or liftings. A technique towards solving this question was developed in arXiv:1212.5279, built on cocycle deforma…
Let $H$ be the Hopf algebra $H_{c: σ_{0}}$ of Kashina [J. Algebra, 232(2000),pp.617-663]. We give all simple Yetter-Drinfel'd modules $V$ over $H$, then classify all finite-dimensional Nichols algebras of $V$. The finite dimensional Nichols algebras of diagonal type are either $A_{1}, A_{2}$ or quantum planes, and non-diagonal type ones are $8$ or $16$ dimensional.
We construct reflection functors for Yetter-Drinfeld modules over Nichols systems and discuss their fundamental properties. We will obtain properties about the geometry of the support of Nichols systems and their Yetter-Drinfeld modules, by looking at iterated reflections. We will also study the maximal subobject of Yetter-Drinfeld modules over Nichols systems and find a special morphism, that we name Shapovalov morphism, whose kernel coincides with this maximal subobject. Moreover, we will use this morphism to characterize properties about the reflections of the Yetter-Drinfeld modules. We ca…
Nichols algebras are a fundamental building block of pointed Hopf algebras. Part of the classification program of finite-dimensional pointed Hopf algebras with the lifting method of Andruskiewitsch and Schneider is the determination of the liftings, i.e., all possible deformations of a given Nichols algebra. Based on recent work of Heckenberger about Nichols algebras of diagonal type we compute explicitly the liftings of all Nichols algebras with Cartan matrix of type A_2, some Nichols algebras with Cartan matrix of type B_2, and some Nichols algebras of two Weyl equivalence classes of non-sta…
Assume that $V$ is a braided vector space with diagonal type. It is shown that a monomial belongs to Nichols braided Lie algebra $\mathfrak L(V)$ if and only if this monomial is connected. A basis of Nichols braided Lie algebra and dimension of Nichols braided Lie algebra of finite Cartan type are obtained.
We classify all non-abelian groups G such that there exists a pair (V,W) of absolutely simple Yetter-Drinfeld modules over G such that the Nichols algebra of the direct sum of V and W is finite-dimensional under two assumptions: the square of the braiding between V and W is not the identity, and G is generated by the support of V and W. As a corollary, we prove that the dimensions of such V and W are at most six. As a tool we use the Weyl groupoid of (V,W).