Crossed products and generalized inner actions of Hopf algebras (Q1183119)

Let \(R*H\) denote a crossed product with the Hopf algebra \(H\) acting on the algebra \(R\) and with the image of \(H\) twisted by a Hopf cocycle \(t\). Under some fairly general technical hypotheses, this paper examines the behavior of ideals and of the Martindale ring of quotients of the crossed product in relation to the weak action of \(H\). Furthermore, the prime ideals of \(R*H\) are studied and certain crossed products with extended inner actions are shown to be semiprime. In the course of this work, the author introduces the idea of an anti-invertible action of \(H\) on \(R\), that is an action with an anti-inverse. If, in addition, the \(H\)- invariant ideals of \(R\) are also invariant under the images of the anti- inverse, then the action is said to be fully invariant. For example, crossed products of cocommutative Hopf algebras with invertible cocycles, crossed products of irreducible Hopf algebras, and all smash products with bijective antipode are proved to be of this type.