On radicals of module coalgebras. (Q2456391)

The authors introduce and study the notions of radical class and idempotent radical class of right module coalgebras over a bialgebra \(B\). These are generalizations of the notion of coradical of a coalgebra. It is shown that the following classes of right \(B\)-module coalgebras are idempotent radical classes: the collection of all projective \(H\)-module coalgebras over a Hopf algebra \(H\), the collection of all \(B\)-module coalgebras \(C\) for which the canonical functor \(\mathcal M_B^C\to\mathcal M^{\overline C}\) defines an equivalence, and the collection of all cocleft \(B\)-module coalgebras. As an application the authors give alternative proofs of the projectivity theorem and the normal basis theorem of \textit{H.-J. Schneider} [Isr. J. Math. 72, No. 1/2, 167-195 (1990; Zbl 0731.16027)] without assuming bijectivity of the antipode.