Pointed Hopf algebras and Kaplansky's 10th conjecture (Q1277016)

\textit{D. E. Radford} constructed several families of pointed finite-dimensional Hopf algebras over a field \(k\) [Advances in Hopf algebras, Lect. Notes Pure Appl. Math. 158, 205-266 (1994; Zbl 0841.57044)]. The author of the paper under review generalized one of Radford's families to a family of Hopf algebras \(H\) which captures all Hopf algebras generated by one group-like element and one skew-primitive element [J. Algebra 204, No. 1, 347-352 (1998; see the preceding review Zbl 0922.16022)]. In the paper under review, he studies this family of Hopf algebras \(H\), constructs and studies a new family of pointed unimodular Hopf algebras which generalize another of Radford's families, and characterizes this latter family of Radford via minimal quasitriangularity. If \(k\) is an infinite field containing a primitive root of unity, the author's new family contains infinitely many nonisomorphic Hopf algebras of the same dimension, thus answering in the negative Kaplansky's 10th conjecture. [Reviewer's remark: Several other authors have also recently given counterexamples to this conjecture.] In studying the structure of these various Hopf algebras, the author considers pointedness, linear bases, the first term of the coradical filtration, left and right integrals, extensions of certain group algebras, the group-like elements, self-duality, closure under duality and unimodularity.