Actions of cocommutative Hopf algebras

Abstract

Let $H$ be a cocommutative Hopf algebra acting on an algebra $A$. Assuming the base field to be algebraically closed and the $H$-action on $A$ to be integral, that is, it is given by a coaction of some Hopf subalgebra of the finite dual $H^{\circ }$ that is an integral domain, we stratify the prime spectrum $\mbox{Spec}\, A$ in terms of the prime spectra of certain commutative algebras. For arbitrary $H$-actions in characteristic $0$, we show that the largest $H$-stable ideal of $A$ that is contained in a given semiprime ideal of $A$ is semiprime as well.

typos corrected, small changes in notation, references added; to appear in Journal of Algebra