Extending lazy 2-cocycles on Hopf algebras and lifting projective representations afforded by them. (Q2370274)

A left 2-cocycle \(\sigma\colon H\otimes H\to k\) on a Hopf algebra \(H\) is said to be lazy if it satisfies the condition \(\sigma(h_1,h_1')h_2h_2'=\sigma(h_2,h_2')h_1h_1'\), \(\forall h,h'\in H\). The paper under review is a contribution to the study of such cocycles and corresponding lazy cohomology, in three different directions: the problem of extending lazy 2-cocycles to a Drinfeld double and to a Radford biproduct; Yetter-Drinfeld data obtained from lazy 2-cocycles; lifting of projective representations afforded by lazy 2-cocycles. The main results are as follows: the extensions to Drinfeld double and Radford biproduct are possible; if \(M\) is a finite-dimensional object in the Yetter-Drinfeld category \(_{H(\sigma)}\mathcal{YD}(H)^H\), then \(\text{End}(M)\) and \(\text{End}(M)^{op}\) are algebras in \(_H\mathcal{YD}^H\); any Hopf algebra \(H\) admits a central extension \(B\) with the property that any projective representation of \(H\) afforded by a lazy 2-cocycle can be lifted to an ordinary representation of \(B\).