On the quasitriangular structures of abelian extensions of $Z_2$

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to study quasitriangular structures on a class of semisimple Hopf algebras constructed through abelian extensions of $Z_2$ for an abelian group $G$. We prove that there are only two forms of them. Using such description together with some other techniques, we get a complete list of all universal $\mathcal{R}$-matrices on some Hopf algebras.