We compute higher Frobenius-Schur indicators of Radford algebras in positive characteristic and find minimal polynomials of these linearly recursive sequences. As a result of Kashina, Montgomery and Ng, we obtain gauge invariants for the monoidal categories of representations of Radford algebras.
The notion of $n$-th indicator for a finite-dimensional Hopf algebra was introduced by Kashina, Montgomery and Ng as gauge invariance of the monoidal category of its representations. The properties of these indicators were further investigated by Shimizu. In this short note, we show that the indicators appearing in positive characteristic all share the same sequence pattern if we assume the coradical of the Hopf algebra is a local Hopf subalgebra.
We investigate the structures of Hopf $ast$-algebra on the Radford algebras over $mathbb {C}$. All the $*$-structures on $H$ are explicitly given. Moreover, these Hopf $*$-algebra structures are classified up to equivalence.
For any gentle algebra $Lambda=KQ/langle Irangle$, following Kalck, we describe the quiver and the relations for its Cohen-Macaulay Auslander algebra $mathrm{Aus}(mathrm{Gproj}Lambda)$ explicitly, and obtain some properties, such as $Lambda$ is representation-finite if and only if $mathrm{Aus}(mathrm{Gproj}Lambda)$ is; if $Q$ has no loop and any indecomposable $Lambda$-module is uniquely determined by its dimension vector, then any indecomposable $mathrm{Aus}(mathrm{Gproj}Lambda)$-module is uniquely determined by its dimension vector.
We introduce Brauer characters for representations of the bismash products of groups in characteristic p > 0, p not 2 and study their properties analogous to the classical case of finite groups. We then use our results to extend to bismash products a theorem of Thompson on lifting Frobenius-Schur indicators from characteristic p to characteristic 0
The Birman-Murakami-Wenzl algebra (BMW algebra) of type Dn is shown to be semisimple and free of rank (2^n+1)n!!-(2^(n-1)+1)n! over a specified commutative ring R, where n!! is the product of the first n odd integers. We also show it is a cellular algebra over suitable ring extensions of R. The Brauer algebra of type Dn is the image af an R-equivariant homomorphism and is also semisimple and free of the same rank, but over the polynomial ring Z with delta and its inverse adjoined. A rewrite system for the Brauer algebra is used in bounding the rank of the BMW algebra above. As a consequence of our results, the generalized Temperley-Lieb algebra of type Dn is a subalgebra of the BMW algebra of the same type.