Matched pairs of actions on the Kac-Paljutkin algebra $H_8$

Abstract

The notion of matched pair of actions on a Hopf algebra generalizes the braided group construction of Lu, Yan and Zhu, and efficiently provides Yang-Baxter operators. In this paper, we classify matched pairs of actions on the Kac-Paljutkin Hopf algebra $H_8$. Through calculations, we obtain 6 matched pairs of actions on $H_8$. Based on such a classification result, we find that four of them can be derived from the coquasitriangular structures of $H_8$, while the other two can not. Furthermore, we discover that the Yang-Baxter operators associated to exactly these two distinguished matched pairs of actions are involutive.

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