A quantum subgroup depth

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Abstract: The Green ring of the half quantum group H=Un(q) is computed in [Chen, Van Oystaeyen, Zhang]. The tensor product formulas between indecomposables may be used for a generalized subgroup depth computation in the setting of quantum groups -- to compute depth of the Hopf subalgebra H in its Drinfeld double D(H). In this paper the Hopf subalgebra quotient module Q (a generalization of the permutation module of cosets for a group extension) is computed and, as H-modules, Q and its second tensor power are decomposed into a direct sum of indecomposables. We note that the least power n, referred to as depth, for which Qotimes(n) has the same indecomposable constituents as Qotimes(n+1) is n=2, since Qotimes(2) contains all H-module indecomposables, which determines the minimum even depth dev(H,D(H))=6.


Let \(k\) be a field. Roughly, a subalgebra \(B\) of a finite dimensional \(k\)-algebra \(A\) is said to have finite depth if \(A^{\otimes_B (n+1)}\) and \(A^{\otimes_B n}\) have the same indecomposable direct summands (as bimodules). For Hopf algebras \(R\subset H\), the second author [J. Pure Appl. Algebra 218, No. 2, 367--380 (2014; Zbl 1301.16034)] has shown that the tensor powers of \({}_RH_R\) are isomorphic to smaller tensor powers of \(Q=H/R^+ H\), where \(R^+\) denotes the augmentation ideal of \(R\). Recently, \textit{H. Chen} et al. [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 142, No. 3, 765--775 (2014; Zbl 1309.16021)] determined the Green rings of the Taft algebras \(U_n(q)\). In the paper under review, the authors calculate the quotient module \(Q\) for \(U_n(q)\), where \(q\) is a primitive \(n\)-th root of unity in \(k\). It is proved that \(Q^{\otimes 2}\) contains all indecomposables of \(U_n(q)\). Hence \(Q\) is of depth 2. By a result of [the second author, loc. cit], this gives the minimum even depth of \(U_n(q)\) in its quantum double.











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