Lifting via cocycle deformation. (Q392493)

Let \(A\) be a finite-dimensional Hopf algebra whose coradical is a Hopf subalgebra \(H\). Then the graded algebra associated to the coradical filtration of \(A\) is again a Hopf algebra, which produces a Nichols algebra. Therefore, deformations of Nichols algebra give rise to new examples of Hopf algebras. There are classes of Hopf algebras (as pointed Hopf algebras over Abelian groups) in which every example arises as such a deformation. In the present paper, the authors investigate the shape of any lifting candidate of a Nichols algebra and the shape of the graded algebra associated to a deformation, develop a strategy to compute all liftings of a Nichols algebra over a finite dimensional cosemisimple Hopf algebra, and produce them as cocycle deformations of the bosonization of these two. As an illustration, the authors apply it to classify all liftings of a Nichols algebra associated to an example with diagonal braiding. The article ends with a question related to the extent of this strategy.