Book Description

This remarkable reference contains expository papers by leading researchers in the field of Hopf algebras, most of which were presented at the National Science Foundation-Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences symposium on Hopf algebras held at DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois. Discussing connections of Hopf algebras to other areas of mathematics, including category theory, group theory, combinatorics, and the theory of knots and links in topology, Advances in Hopf Algebras offers positive results on local freeness built around the Hopf algebra theme...covers topics such as quantum groups, Hopf Galois theory, actions and coactions of Hopf algebras, smash and crossed products, and the structure of cosemisimple Hopf algebras...examines the actions of quasitriangular Hopf algebras on quantum-commutative algebras...studies some general principles on how to construct algebras and comodule algebras... constructs endomorphism spaces in the category of noncommutative spaces...describes quantum GL[subscript d] and introduces the q-Schur algebra with the Hecke algebra...investigates the Knot invariance arising from finite-dimensional ribbon Hopf algebras and the algebra involved in their construction...and more. Furnishing over 800 up-to-date literature citations, useful equations, and helpful drawings, Advances in Hopf Algebras is a vital resource for algebraists, noncommutative ring theorists, number theorists, theoretical physicists, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.