On cores in Yetter-Drinfel'd Hopf algebras (Q2035814)

In the paper under review, the authors discuss finite-dimensional cocommutative cosemisimple Yetter-Drinfel'd Hopf algebras over the group ring of an arbitrary finite abelian group. Under the assumption that the base field is algebraically closed of characteristic zero and the finite abelian group has prime order, it is known that the core of every group-like element is always completely trivial in the sense that both the action and the coaction on the core are trivial. The paper is intended to show that this is not true in the case of an arbitrary finite abelian group. The examples that the authors construct are eight-dimensional Yetter-Drinfel'd Hopf algebras over the group ring of the elementary abelian group \(\mathbb{Z}_2\times\mathbb{Z}_2\). The cores of some group-like elements that appear in the examples are not completely trivial. However, these cores are trivial in the sense that they are ordinary Hopf algebras.