Finite Cartan Graphs Attached to Nichols Algebras of Diagonal Type

Nichols algebras are fundamental objects in the construction of quantized enveloping algebras and in the classification of pointed Hopf algebras by the lifting method of Andruskiewitsch and Schneider. The structure of Cartan graphs can be attached to any Nichols algebras of diagonal type and plays an important role in the classification of Nichols algebras of diagonal type with a finite root system. In this paper, the main properties of all simply connected Cartan graphs attached to rank 6 Nichols algebras of diagonal type are determined. As an application, we obtain a subclass of rank 6 finite dimensional Nichols algebras of diagonal type.

On finite GK-dimensional Nichols algebras over abelian groups

We contribute to the classification of Hopf algebras with finite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension, GKdim \operatorname {GKdim} for short, through the study of Nichols algebras over abelian groups. We deal first with braided vector spaces over Z \mathbb {Z} with the generator acting as a single Jordan block and show that the corresponding Nichols algebra has finite GKdim \operatorname {GKdim} if and only if the size of the block is 2 and the eigenvalue is ± 1 \pm 1 ; when this is 1, we recover the quantum Jordan plane. We consider next a class of braided vector spaces that are direct sums of blocks and points that contains those of diagonal type. We conjecture that a Nichols algebra of diagonal type has finite GKdim \operatorname {GKdim} if and only if the corresponding generalized root system is finite. Assuming the validity of this conjecture, we classify all braided vector spaces in the mentioned class whose Nichols algebra has finite GKdim \operatorname {GKdim} . Consequently we present several new examples of Nichols algebras with finite GKdim \operatorname {GKdim} , including two not in the class alluded to above. We determine which among these Nichols algebras are domains.

Nichols algebras over classical Weyl groups(II)

It is shown that except in three cases conjugacy classes of classical Weyl groups [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are of type [Formula: see text]. This proves that Nichols algebras of irreducible Yetter–Drinfeld modules over the classical Weyl groups [Formula: see text] (i.e. [Formula: see text]) are infinite dimensional, except the class of type [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text].

EXAMPLES OF FINITE-DIMENSIONAL POINTED HOPF ALGEBRAS IN CHARACTERISTIC 2

We present new examples of finite-dimensional Nichols algebras over fields of characteristic 2 from braided vector spaces that are not of diagonal type, admit realizations as Yetter–Drinfeld modules over finite abelian groups, and are analogous to Nichols algebras of finite Gelfand–Kirillov dimension in characteristic 0. New finite-dimensional pointed Hopf algebras over fields of characteristic 2 are obtained by bosonization with group algebras of suitable finite abelian groups.

Bivariate continuous q-Hermite polynomials and deformed quantum Serre relations

We introduce bivariate versions of the continuous [Formula: see text]-Hermite polynomials. We obtain algebraic properties for them (generating function, explicit expressions in terms of the univariate ones, backward difference equations and recurrence relations) and analytic properties (determining the orthogonality measure). We find a direct link between bivariate continuous [Formula: see text]-Hermite polynomials and the star product method of [S. Kolb and M. Yakimov, Symmetric pairs for Nichols algebras of diagonal type via star products, Adv. Math. 365 (2020), Article ID: 107042, 69 pp.] for quantum symmetric pairs to establish deformed quantum Serre relations for quasi-split quantum symmetric pairs of Kac–Moody type. We prove that these defining relations are obtained from the usual quantum Serre relations by replacing all monomials by multivariate orthogonal polynomials.