In continuation of our recent work about smash product Hom-Hopf algebras [Colloq. Math. 134 (2014)], we introduce the Hom-Yetter-Drinfeld category ${}_H^H$ via the Radford biproduct Hom-Hopf algebra, and prove that Hom-Yetter-Drinfeld modules can provide solutions of the Hom-Yang-Baxter equation and ${}_H^H$ is a pre-braided tensor category, where (H,β,S) is a Hom-Hopf algebra. Furthermore, we show that $(A{♮}_{\diamond }H,\alpha \otimes \beta )$ is a Radford biproduct Hom-Hopf algebra if and only if (A,α) is a Hom-Hopf algebra in the category ${}_H^H$. Finally,...

Let $(H,\alpha )$ be a monoidal Hom-Hopf algebra and $(A,\beta )$ a right $(H,\alpha )$-Hom-comodule algebra. We first introduce the notion of a relative Hom-Hopf module and prove that the functor $F$ from the category of relative Hom-Hopf modules to the category of right $(A,\beta )$-Hom-modules has a right adjoint. Furthermore, we prove a Maschke type theorem for the category of relative Hom-Hopf modules. In fact, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the functor that forgets the $(H,\alpha )$-coaction to be separable. This leads to a generalized...

We obtain a presentation by generators and relations of any Nichols algebra of diagonal type with finite root system. We prove that the defining ideal is finitely generated. The proof is based on Kharchenko’s theory of PBW bases of Lyndon words. We prove that the lexicographic order on Lyndon words is convex for PBW generators and so the PBW basis is orthogonal with respect to the canonical non-degenerate form associated to the Nichols algebra.

Additive deformations of bialgebras in the sense of J. Wirth [PhD thesis, Université Paris VI, 2002], i.e. deformations of the multiplication map fulfilling a certain compatibility condition with respect to the coalgebra structure, can be generalized to braided bialgebras. The theorems for additive deformations of Hopf algebras can also be carried over to that case. We consider *-structures and prove a general Schoenberg correspondence in this context. Finally we give some examples.