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Gocommutative Hopf Algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Richard G. Larson*
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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A coalgebra over the field F is a vector space A over F, with maps δ: A → A ⊗ A and ∊: A → F such that

1

and

2

The notion of coalgebra is dual to the notion of algebra with unit, with δ as coproduct (equation (1) says that δ is associative) and ∊ as the unit map (equation (2) is just the statement that ∊ is a unit for the coproduct δ). If A is also an algebra with unit and δ and ∊ are algebra homomorphisms, A is a Hopf algebra.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1967

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