Algebraic properties of face algebras
Abstract
Prompted by an inquiry of Manin on whether a coacting Hopf-type structure HH and an algebra AA that is coacted upon share algebraic properties, we study the particular case of AA being a path algebra 𝕂Q of a finite quiver Q and H being Hayashi’s face algebra 𝔥 attached to Q. This is motivated by the work of Huang, Wicks, Won and the second author, where it was established that the weak bialgebra coacting universally on 𝕂Q (either from the left, right, or both sides compatibly) is 𝔥. For our study, we define the Kronecker square ˆQ of Q, and show that 𝔥≅𝕂ˆQ as unital graded algebras. Then we obtain ring-theoretic and homological properties of 𝔥 in terms of graph-theoretic properties of Q by way of ˆQ.
Communicated by L. H. Rowen