Symmetric pairs for Nichols algebras of diagonal type via star products (Q2308299)

In the paper under review the authors construct symmetric pairs for Drinfeld doubles of pre-Nichols algebras of diagonal type and determine when they possess an Iwasawa decomposition, extending G. Letzter's theory of quantum symmetric pairs. They then develop a general notion of star products on \(\mathbb N\)-graded connected algebras and use it to show that the symmetric pair coideal subalgebras with Iwasawa decomposition are isomorphic to intrinsically defined deformations of partial bosonizations of the corresponding pre-Nichols algebras. The isomorphism between the coideal subalgebra and the partial bosonization is used, in the context of Nichols algebras of diagonal type, to give an explicit construction of quasi \(K\)-matrices as sums over dual bases and show that they give rise to weakly universal \(K\)-matrices.