A cohomological construction of quantization functors of Lie bialgebras (Q2573405)

This paper presents a variation of the Etingof-Kazhdan (EK) construction of quantization functors of Lie bialgebras over a field \(K\) of characteristic zero [\textit{P. Etingof} and \textit{D. Kazhdan}, Sel. Math., New Ser. 2, No.~1, 1--41 (1996; Zbl 0863.17008); ibid. 4, No.~2, 213--231 (1998; Zbl 0915.17009)]. In the language of props, such a quantization functor is a morphism of the prop of bialgebras to the completed symmetrization of the completed prop of Lie bialgebras. Such a functor gives rise to a functor from Lie bialgebras to quantized universal enveloping algebras, which is inverse to the semiclassical limit functor. More precisely, EK constructed a map \(EK\) from the set Assoc of Drinfeld associators to the set Quant of quantization functors. EK's approach is based on fiber functors from \(A\)-dimodules for a Lie bialgebra \(A\) to \(K[[h]]\), where \(h\) is a formal variable. This involves doubles of Lie bialgebras, a solution of a certain cocycle equation and a noncommutative analogue of a Hochschild cohomology differential. In the paper under review, a variation of the map \(EK\) is given. The main ingredients are: (a) A solution of the cocycle equation by cohomological techniques, which is uniqued up to gauge-equivalence. (b) A set Quant\('\) of quantization functors of doubles \(G\) of Lie bialgebras which do not alter the algebra structure of \(U(G)\). This leads to a map from \(A\) to Quant\('\). (c) A map from Quant\('\) to Quant using the universal version of the construction of left and right Hopf subalgebras of the quasitriangular Hopf algebra \(U(G)[[h]]\). The composite Assoc \(\to\) Quant\('\to\) Quant coincides with \(EK\).