Weak Hopf algebras and weak Yang-Baxter operators. (Q950220)

In the paper under review the notions of weak Yang-Baxter operator and weak braided Hopf algebra are introduced. It is shown that it is possible to obtain examples of these notions working with Yetter-Drinfeld modules associated to a weak Hopf algebra \(H\) with invertible antipode. By completing the study of the structure of weak Hopf algebras with a projection it is obtained a categorical equivalence between the category of weak Hopf algebra projections associated to \(H\) and the category of Hopf algebras in the non-strict braided monoidal category of left-left Yetter-Drinfeld modules over \(H\). A weak braided Hopf algebra in a strict monoidal category as an algebra and a coalgebra having a weak Yang-Baxter operator on it, satisfying some compatibility conditions, is also defined, and it generalizes the one introduced by \textit{M. Takeuchi} [Contemp. Math. 267, 301-323 (2000; Zbl 0978.16035)].