nLab coquasitriangular bialgebra

Coquasitriangularity is dual property to quasitriangularity.

A kk-bialgebra (or, in particular, Hopf algebra) (H,m,η,Δ,ϵ)(H, m,\eta,\Delta,\epsilon) is coquasitriangular (or dual quasitriangular) if it is equipped with a kk-linear map R:HHkR:H\otimes H\to k which is invertible in convolution algebra Hom k(HH,k)Hom_k(H\otimes H,k) (with respect to the convolution-unit ϵϵ\epsilon\otimes\epsilon) with a convolution inverse denoted R¯\bar{R} such that the opposite multiplication m H op:=mτm_{H_{op}} := m\circ \tau is given by

m H op=RmR¯ m_{H_{op}} = R\star m\star \bar{R}

and the following two identities hold when applied on HHHH\otimes H\otimes H:

R(mid)=R 13R 23 R(m\otimes id) = R_{13} R_{23}
R(idm)=R 12R 23 R(id\otimes m) = R_{12} R_{23}

with the subscript notation as explained in the nnlab entry quasitriangular Hopf algebra. The main examples come from quantized function algebras (that is, roughly, dual of quantized enveloping algebras).

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