Doubles of quasi-quantum groups

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Abstract: Drinfeld showed that any finite dimensional Hopf algebra G extends to a quasitriangular Hopf algebra D(G), the quantum double of G. Based on the construction of a so--called diagonal crossed product developed by the authors, we generalize this result to the case of quasi--Hopf algebras G. As for ordinary Hopf algebras, as a vector space the ``quasi--quantum double D(G) is isomorphic to the tensor product of G and its dual dG. We give explicit formulas for the product, the coproduct, the R--matrix and the antipode on D(G) and prove that they fulfill Drinfeld's axioms of a quasitriangular quasi--Hopf algebra. In particular D(G) becomes an associative algebra containing G as a quasi--Hopf subalgebra. On the other hand, dG otimes 1 is not a subalgebra of D(G) unless the coproduct on G is strictly coassociative. It is shown that the category of finite dimensional representations of D(G) coincides with what has been called the double category of G--modules by S. Majid [M2]. Thus our construction gives a concrete realization of Majid's abstract definition of quasi--quantum doubles in terms of a Tannaka--Krein--like reconstruction procedure. The whole construction is shown to generalize to weak quasi--Hopf algebras with D(G) now being linearly isomorphic to a subspace of dG otimes G.


The authors generalize the construction of the Drinfel'd double of a finite dimensional Hopf algebra to quasi-Hopf algebras. If \({\mathcal G}\) is a finite dimensional quasi-Hopf algebra, the double \({\mathcal D}({\mathcal G})\) is a quasi-triangular quasi-Hopf algebra which is isomorphic to \(\widehat{\mathcal G}\otimes {\mathcal G}\) as a vector space, where \(\widehat{\mathcal G}\) is the dual of \(\mathcal G\). Explicit formulas for the product, coproduct, antipode and the \(R\)-matrix are given. It is proved that the category of finite dimensional representations of \({\mathcal D}({\mathcal G})\) is just the double category of \(\mathcal G\)-modules defined by S. Majid. The construction of the double is also generalized to weak quasi-Hopf algebras.




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