Twisting products in algebras. II (Q1295976)

[For part I cf. the first author, Commun. Algebra 23, No. 7, 2719-2744 (1995; Zbl 0841.16038).] Let \(H\) be a bialgebra and \(A\) an (associative) algebra. Let \(\pi\colon H\otimes A\to A\) and \(\psi\colon A\to H\otimes A\) be linear maps. The authors study a twisted multiplication on \(A\) given by \(a*b=\sum a_0(a_{-1}\cdot b)\). They give axioms for the action \(\pi\) and the coaction \(\psi\) so that \((A,*)\) is again an associative algebra. The axioms are fairly weak, in particular \(A\) does not have to be a module via \(\pi\) or a comodule via \(\psi\). The authors show that their construction is a generalization of dimodule algebras, where such a twisted multiplication is known, and that special cases of this are also crossed products, the Drinfeld double, smashed products, the Radford biproduct and similar constructions.