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A deeper understanding of recent computations of the Brauer group of Hopf algebras is attained by explaining why a direct product decomposition for this group holds and describing the non-interpreted factor occurring in it. For a Hopf algebra $B$ in a braided monoidal category $C$, and under certain assumptions on the braiding (fulfilled if $C$ is symmetric), we construct a sequence for the Brauer group $BM(C;B)$ of $B$-module algebras, generalizing Beatties one. It allows one to prove that $BM(C;B) cong Br(C) times Gal(C;B),$ where $Br(C)$ is the Brauer group of $C$ and $Gal(C;B)$ the group of $B$-Galois objects. We also show that $BM(C;B)$ contains a subgroup isomorphic to $Br(C) times Hc(C;B,I),$ where $Hc(C;B,I)$ is the second Sweedler cohomology group of $B$ with values in the unit object $I$ of $C$. These results are applied to the Brauer group of a quasi-triangular Hopf algebra that is a Radford biproduct $B times H$, where $H$ is a usual Hopf algebra over a field $K$, the Hopf subalgebra generated by the quasi-triangular structure $R$ is contained in $H$ and $B$ is a Hopf algebra in the category ${}_HM$ of left $H$-modules. The Hopf algebras whose Brauer group was recently computed fit this framework. We finally show that $BM(K,H,R) times Hc({}_HM;B,K)$ is a subgroup of the Brauer group $BM(K,B times H,R),$ confirming the suspicion that a certain cohomology group of $B times H$ (second lazy cohomology group was conjectured) embeds into $BM(K,B times H,R).$ New examples of Brauer groups of quasi-triangular Hopf algebras are computed using this sequence.
A Hopf algebra is co-Frobenius when it has a nonzero integral. It is proved that the composition length of the indecomposable injective comodules over a co-Frobenius Hopf algebra is bounded. As a consequence, the coradical filtration of a co-Frobenius Hopf algebra is finite; this confirms a conjecture by Sorin Du{a}scu{a}lescu and the first author. The proof is of categorical nature and the same result is obtained for Frobenius tensor categories of subexponential growth. A family of co-Frobenius Hopf algebras that are not of finite type over their Hopf socles is constructed, answering so in the negative another question by the same authors.
Let $(H, R)$ be a finite dimensional quasitriangular Hopf algebra over a field $k$, and $_Hmathcal{M}$ the representation category of $H$. In this paper, we study the braided autoequivalences of the Drinfeld center $^H_Hmathcal{YD}$ trivializable on $_Hmathcal{M}$. We establish a group isomorphism between the group of those autoequivalences and the group of quantum commutative bi-Galois objects of the transmutation braided Hopf algebra $_RH$. We then apply this isomorphism to obtain a categorical interpretation of the exact sequence of the equivariant Brauer group $mathrm{BM}(k, H,R)$ in [18]. To this aim, we have to develop the braided bi-Galois theory initiated by Schauenburg in [14,15], which generalizes the Hopf bi-Galois theory over usual Hopf algebras to the one over braided Hopf algebras in a braided monoidal category.
We present an overview of the notions of exact sequences of Hopf algebras and tensor categories and their connections. We also present some examples illustrating their main features; these include simple fusion categories and a natural question regarding composition series of finite tensor categories.
We study actions of pointed Hopf algebras on matrix algebras. Our approach is based on known facts about group gradings of matrix algebras.
If H is a finite dimensional quasi-Hopf algebra and A is a left H-module algebra, we prove that there is a Morita context connecting the smash product A#H and the subalgebra of invariants A^{H}. We define also Galois extensions and prove the connection with this Morita context, as in the Hopf case.