Quantum groups and noncommutative geometry. With a contribution by Theo Raedschelders and Michel Van den Bergh (Q1668471)

This book is the second edition of \textit{Yu. I. Manin}'s celebrated and inspiring lectures at the Université de Montréal [Quantum groups and non-commutative geometry. Montréal: Université de Montréal, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM) (1988; Zbl 0724.17006)]. This new edition has an additional chapter by Raedschelders and Van den Bergh, based on the PhD Thesis of \textit{Th. Raedschelders} [Manin's universal Hopf algebras and highest weight categories. Brussels: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (PhD Thesis) (2017)] and the authors joint works [Adv. Math. 305, 601--660 (2017; Zbl 1405.16044); J. Noncommut. Geom. 11, No. 3, 845--885 (2017; Zbl 1383.16025)]. The new chapter aims to expand upon a discussion in Manin's lectures on the possibility of ``hidden-symmetry'' in algebraic geometry. More precisely, the chapter concerns several aspects of the representation theory of certain universal bialgebras \(\underline{\mathrm{end}}(A)\) and Hopf algebras \(\underline{\mathrm{gl}}(A)\) introduced in Manin's book, where \(A\) is an algebra subject to appropriate conditions.