Triangular Hopf algebras with the Chevalley property

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Abstract: We say that a Hopf algebra has the Chevalley property if the tensor product of any two simple modules over this Hopf algebra is semisimple. In this paper we classify finite dimensional triangular Hopf algebras with the Chevalley property, over the field of complex numbers. Namely, we show that all of them are twists of triangular Hopf algebras with R-matrix having rank <=2, and explain that the latter ones are obtained from group algebras of finite supergroups by a simple modification procedure. We note that all examples of finite dimensional triangular Hopf algebras which are known to the authors, do have the Chevalley property, so one might expect that our classification potentially covers all finite dimensional triangular Hopf algebras.


The authors work over the field of complex numbers. A Hopf algebra \(H\) is said to have the Chevalley property if the tensor product of any two simple \(H\)-modules is semisimple. The main aim of the paper is to classify finite dimensional triangular Hopf algebras with the Chevalley property. More precisely, it is proved that a finite dimensional triangular Hopf algebra \(H\) has the Chevalley property if and only if it is a twist of a finite dimensional triangular Hopf algebra \(A\) with \(R\)-matrix of rank \(\leq 2\). Moreover, it is proved that such a Hopf algebra \(A\) is obtained from a cocommutative Hopf superalgebra (i.e. the group algebra of a supergroup) by a certain modification of the comultiplication. As an application of the main theorem, it is proved that a finite dimensional cotriangular pointed Hopf algebra is generated by grouplike elements and skewprimitive elements. Finally it is proved that in any linear Abelian symmetric rigid tensor category with finitely many irreducible objects (in particular in the category of representations over a finite dimensional triangular Hopf algebra), the categorical dimensions of objects are integers. The paper contains many examples and several interesting open questions.




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