Universal quantum (semi)groups and Hopf envelopes

Abstract

We prove that, in case $A(c)$ = the FRT construction of a braided vector space $(V,c)$ admits a weakly Frobenius algebra $\mathfrak{B}$ (e.g. if the braiding is rigid and its Nichols algebra is finite dimensional), then the Hopf envelope of $A(c)$ is simply the localization of $A(c)$ by a single element called the quantum determinant associated to the weakly Frobenius algebra. This generalizes a result of the author together with Gastón A. García in \cite{FG}, where the same statement was proved, but with extra hypotheses that we now know were unnecessary. On the way, we describe a universal way of constructing a universal bialgebra attached to a finite dimensional vector space together with some algebraic structure given by a family of maps $\{f_i:V^{\otimes n_i}\to V^{\otimes m_i}\}$. The Dubois-Violette and Launer Hopf algebra and the co-quasi triangular property of the FRT construction play a fundamental role on the proof.

20 pages. References and a comment on path algebras added