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We develop a theory which unifies the universal (co)acting bi/Hopf algebras as studied by Sweedler, Manin and Tambara with the recently introduced [A. L. Agore, A. S. Gordienko and J. Vercruysse, On equivalences of (co)module algebra structures over Hopf algebras, J. Noncommut. Geom., doi: 10.4171/JNCG/428.] bi/Hopf-algebras that are universal among all support equivalent (co)acting bi/Hopf algebras. Our approach uses vector spaces endowed with a family of linear maps between tensor powers of [Formula: see text], called [Formula: see text]-algebras. This allows us to treat algebras, coalgebras, braided vector spaces and many other structures in a unified way. We study [Formula: see text]-universal measuring coalgebras and [Formula: see text]-universal comeasuring algebras between [Formula: see text]-algebras [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], relative to a fixed subspace [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text]. By considering the case [Formula: see text], we derive the notion of a [Formula: see text]-universal (co)acting bialgebra (and Hopf algebra) for a given algebra [Formula: see text]. In particular, this leads to a refinement of the existence conditions for the Manin–Tambara universal coacting bi/Hopf algebras. We establish an isomorphism between the [Formula: see text]-universal acting bi/Hopf algebra and the finite dual of the [Formula: see text]-universal coacting bi/Hopf algebra under certain conditions on [Formula: see text] in terms of the finite topology on [Formula: see text].

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... Moreover, Sweedler showed the existence of a universal measuring coalgebra between any pair of algebras. This theory has been generalized in several ways, for example to the setting of closed monoidal categories in [9] and to more general types of algebraic structures, termed Ω-algebras in [1]. ...
... In the terminology of [3] this means that the category of algebras can be turned into a (klinear) semi-Hopf category. Following the work of [1], the same holds for any category of Ω-algebras. A natural question arises whether it is also possible to make this category into a Hopf-category, that is, to show the existence of an antipode for this semi-Hopf category. ...
... Dually to measuring coalgebras, one can consider comeasuring algebras. However, universal comeasurings only exist under suitable finiteness conditions (see [1]). Since Frobenius algebras are necessarily finite dimensional, universal comeasurings exist as well between any pair of Frobenius algebras. ...
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We show that the universal measuring coalgebras between Frobenius algebras turn the category of Frobenius algebras into a Hopf category (in the sense of \cite{BCV}), and the universal comeasuring algebras between Frobenius algebras turn the category Frobenius algebras into a Hopf opcategory. We also discuss duality and compatibility results between these structures. Our theory vastly generalizes the well-known fact that any homomorphism beween Frobenius algebras is an isomorphism, but also allows to go beyond classical (iso)morphisms between Frobenius algebras, especially in finite characteristic, as we show by some explicit examples.
... Inspired by this, the notions of equivalence and universal Hopf algebras of (co)module structures on algebras were introduced in [3] as a natural generalization of the aforementioned universal group of a grading. This construction was unified in [4] with the universal (co)acting bi/Hopf algebras of Sweedler -Manin -Tambara, introducing the V -universal (co)acting bi/Hopf algebras for a given algebra A, where V is a unital subalgebra of End (A) and is the base field. The advantage of such a unified theory is that it simplifies the classification of (co)module structures (or even in certain cases makes it possible at all) by providing duality theorems. ...
... The advantage of such a unified theory is that it simplifies the classification of (co)module structures (or even in certain cases makes it possible at all) by providing duality theorems. Moreover, it is known that for a general infinite dimensional algebra A, the universal coacting bi/Hopf algebra of Manin -Tambara do not always exist (see [4,Section 4.5]) and the use of V provides the necessary restriction on the class of comodule structures under consideration to ensure the existence of the universal Hopf algebra for this class. Furthermore, following Sweedler [26], rather than considering just (universal) (co)actions of a bi/Hopf algebra on an algebra, one can also consider (universal) measurings of coalgebras between different algebras, similarly to considering homomorphisms between algebras rather than just endomorphisms of a single algebra. ...
... The main difference between existing literature and the approach we advocate here, is that all known general categorical results prove the existence of globally universal (i.e. universal among all measurings) (co)acting objects, and as already pointed out above, it is known [4,Section 4.5], that even in the case C = (Vect , ⊗), the category of vector spaces over a field , such global objects do not exist. Therefore, we propose to restrict the class of (co)measurings and (co)actions under consideration which allows for many new categories to be considered, including the ones previously mentioned and not covered by the existing literature. ...
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The universal (co)acting bi/Hopf algebras introduced by Yu.\,I.~Manin, M.~Sweedler and D.~Tambara, the universal Hopf algebra of a given (co)module structure, as well as the universal group of a grading, introduced by J.~Patera and H.~Zassenhaus, find their applications in the classification of quantum symmetries. Typically, universal (co)acting objects are defined as initial or terminal in the corresponding categories and, as such, they do not always exist. In order to ensure their existence, we introduce the support of a given object, which generalizes the support of a grading and is used to restrict the class of objects under consideration. The existence problems for universal objects are formulated and studied in a purely categorical manner by seeing them as particular cases of the lifting problem for a locally initial object. We prove the existence of a lifting and, consequently, of the universal (co)acting objects under some assumptions on the base (braided or symmetric monoidal) category. In contrast to existing constructions, our approach is self-dual in the sense that we can use the same proof to obtain the existence of universal actions and coactions. In particular, when the base category is the category of vector spaces over a field, the category of sets or their duals, we recover known existence results for the aforementioned universal objects. The proposed approach allows us to apply our results not only to the classical categories of sets and vectors spaces and their duals but also to (co)modules over bi/Hopf algebras, differential graded vector spaces, G-sets and graded sets.
... The corresponding notions of equivalence and universal Hopf algebras of (co)module structures on algebras were introduced in [3], generalizing the aforementioned universal group of a grading. Furthermore, a unifying theory for universal Hopf algebras of (co)module structures and universal (co)acting bi/Hopf algebras of Sweedler -Manin -Tambara ( [21,17,22]) was introduced in [4], by considering V -universal (co)acting bi/Hopf algebras where V is a unital subalgebra of End (A) and is the base field. Motivation comes, on the one hand, from the fact that this unified theory simplifies and in certain cases even makes it possible at all to classify (co)module structures by means of duality results. ...
... Motivation comes, on the one hand, from the fact that this unified theory simplifies and in certain cases even makes it possible at all to classify (co)module structures by means of duality results. On the other hand, since the universal coacting bi/Hopf algebras of Manin -Tambara do not always exist [4,Section 4.5], V provides the necessary restriction on the class of comodule structures under consideration to ensure the existence of the universal Hopf algebra for this class. ...
... The first duality result for the (absolute) universal comeasuring algebra and measuring coalgebra, which generalizes the classical adjunction between the finite dual (of an algebra over a field) functor and the dual algebra (of a coalgebra over a field) functor (see e.g., [10,Theorem 1.5.22]), was established by D. Tambara in [22]. This duality was extended to V -universal (co)measuring (co)algebras and (co)acting bi/Hopf algebras over fields in [4,Theorems 3.20,4.14,4.15]. As it was proven in [4], the V -universal coacting Hopf algebras over fields admit a transparent description in terms of free algebras and relations, while the construction of V -universal acting Hopf algebras is not as explicit, since it involves subcoalgebras of cofree coalgebras. ...
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In general, universal (co)measuring (co)monoids and universal (co)acting bi/Hopf monoids, which prove to be a useful tool in the classification of quantum symmetries, do not always exist. In order to ensure their existence, the support of a given object was recently introduced in \cite{AGV3} and used to restrict the class of objects considered when defining universal (co)acting objects. It is well-known that, in contrast with the universal coacting Hopf algebra, for actions on algebras over a field it is usually difficult to describe the universal acting Hopf algebra explicitly and this turns the duality theorem into an important investigation tool. In the present paper we establish duality results for universal (co)measuring (co)monoids and universal (co)acting bi/Hopf monoids in pre-rigid braided monoidal categories C\mathcal C. In addition, when the base category C\mathcal C is closed monoidal, we provide a convenient uniform approach to the aforementioned universal objects in terms of the cosupports, which in this case become subobjects of internal hom-objects. In order to explain our constructions, we use the language of locally initial objects. Known results from the literature are recovered when the base category is the category of vector spaces over a field. New cases where our results can be applied are explored, including categories of (co)modules over (co)quasitriangular Hopf algebras, Yetter-Drinfeld modules and dg-vector spaces.
... A particularly motivating example of a semi-Hopf category is the category of algebras, which is known to be enriched over coalgebras by means of Sweedler's universal measuring coalgebras, see [24], [26], [16], [4]. The results of our paper allow to consider the free or cofree Hopf category over this semi-Hopf category, which then leads then to a Hopf category structure on the category of algebras. ...
... Another case of particular interest, is given by the semi-Hopf category of algebras, which are known to be enriched over coalgebras by means of Sweedler's universal measuring coalgebras [4,24,26]. Our construction of the (co)free Hopf category over a semi-Hopf category allow to turn the category of algebras into a Hopf category. ...
... Indeed, in [18], A is supposed to be a graded algebra that is finite dimensional in each degree. This finiteness condition has been refined in [4]. In fact, following the constructions of [18] and [4], one would obtain a Hopf opcategory, rather then a Hopf category. ...
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... The two results above remains valid if we take the category of Hopf algebras instead of bialgebras: in particular, the Hopf envelope of a(A), denoted by aut(A), is called in non-commutative geometry the non-commutative symmetry group of A [27] and its description is a very complicated matter. The existence and description of these universal (co)acting bialgebras/Hopf algebras has been considered recently in [2] in the context of Ω-algebras. The duality between Sweedler's and Manin-Tambara's objects has been extended to this general setting and necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of the universal coacting bialgebras/Hopf algebras, which roughly explains the need for assuming finite-dimensionality in Manin-Tambara's constructions, are given. ...
... For an ndimensional Poisson algebra P , we denote P(P ) := P(P, P ) and we construct P(P ) as the quotient of the polynomial algebra k[X ij | i, j = 1, · · · , n] through an ideal generated by 2n 3 non-homogeneous polynomials of degree ≤ 2. P(P ) has a canonical bialgebra structure and Theorem 3.3 shows that P(P ) is the initial object of the category CoactBialg P of all commutative bialgebras coacting on P and, for this reason, we call it the universal coacting bialgebra of P . As in the case of Lie [5] or associative algebras [23], the universal bialgebra P(P ) has two important applications, which provide the theoretical answer for Poisson algebras, of the following open questions: (1) Describe explicitly the automorphisms group of a given Poisson algebra P ; (2) Describe and classify all G-gradings on P for a given abelian group G. More precisely, Theorem 3.6 proves that there exists an isomorphism of groups between the group of all Poisson automorphisms of P and the group of all invertible group-like elements of the finite dual P(P ) o . ...
... If B is a bialgebra, then G(B) is a monoid with respect to the multiplication on B. Throughout, for a bialgebra B, we denote by B o its finite dual. Recall that if H and L are two bialgebras then the abelian group Hom k (H, L) is an associative algebra under the convolution product [28]: (2) ), for all θ 1 , θ 2 ∈ Hom k (H, L) and h ∈ H. ...
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... The fact that c is a solution of the braid equation implies the very important fact that A(c) is a co-quasi-triangular bialgebra. That is, there exists a convolution-invertible bilinear map r : (1) , b (1) )a (2) (1) r(a (2) , b (2) ) This map is uniquely determined by CQT1-2-3 and ...
... The fact that c is a solution of the braid equation implies the very important fact that A(c) is a co-quasi-triangular bialgebra. That is, there exists a convolution-invertible bilinear map r : (1) , b (1) )a (2) (1) r(a (2) , b (2) ) This map is uniquely determined by CQT1-2-3 and ...
... The fact that c is a solution of the braid equation implies the very important fact that A(c) is a co-quasi-triangular bialgebra. That is, there exists a convolution-invertible bilinear map r : (1) , b (1) )a (2) (1) r(a (2) , b (2) ) This map is uniquely determined by CQT1-2-3 and ...
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... There is a current surge of interest in the study of universal quantum symmetries, see e.g., [1,2,5,8,9,10,11,18,22]. Notable results by Raedschelders and Van den Bergh in [18] showed that Manin's universal quantum groups of Koszul Artin-Schelter (AS) regular algebras with the same global dimensions have monoidally equivalent comodule categories. ...
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... We use Sweedler's notation with implied summation for both coalgebras (resp. bialgebras), as in ∆(c) = c (1) ⊗ c 2 , and for comodule structures: a right C-comodule structure ρ on a vector space V will be denoted by ρ(v) = v (0) ⊗ v (1) . When we need to be precise, the structures involved will be adorned. ...
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