1. Introduction
In order to understand the structure and relevant properties of the algebraic 7-sphere, Klim and Majid in [
1] proposed the notion of Hopf quasigroups. They are non-associative generalizations of Hopf algebras; however, there are certain conditions about antipode that can compensate for their lack of associativity. Hopf quasigroups are no longer associative algebras, so their compatibility conditions are quite different from those of Hopf algebras.
Turaev introduced the notion of braided crossed categories, which is based on a group
G, and showed that such a category gives rise to a 3-dimensional homotopy quantum field theory with target space
. In fact, braided crossed categories are braided monoidal categories in Freyd–Yetter categories of crossed G-sets (see [
2]), and play a key role in the construction of these homotopy invariants.
Zunino introduced a kind of Yetter–Drinfeld module over crossed group coalgebra in [
3], and constructed a braided crossed category for this kind of Yetter–Drinfeld module. This idea was generalized to multiplier Hopf T-coalgebras by Yang in [
4]. It is natural to ask the question: Does this method also hold for some other algebraic structures?
Motivated by this question, the main purpose of this paper is to construct a braided crossed category by p-Yetter–Drinfeld modules over crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroups.
This paper is organized as follows: In
Section 2, we recall some notions, such as braided crossed categories, Turaev’s left index notation, and Hopf quasigroups. These are the most important building blocks on which this article is founded.
In
Section 3, we introduce crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroups and then provide some examples of this algebraic structure. Moreover, we give a method to construct crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroups, which relies on a fixed crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup. At the end of this section, we show that a group-cograded Hopf quasigroup with the group G is indeed a Hopf quasigroup in the Turaev category.
In
Section 4, we first give the definition of
p-Yetter–Drinfeld quasimodules over a crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup H. We then show the category
of Yetter–Drinfeld quasimodules over
H is a crossed category, and the subcategory
of Yetter–Drinfeld modules is a braided crossed category.
3. Crossed Group-Cograded Hopf Quasigroup
In this section, we first introduce the notion of crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroups, generalizing crossed Hopf group-coalgebra introduced in [
7]. Then we prove that a group-cograded Hopf quasigroup is indeed a Hopf quasigroup in the Turaev category, and provide a method to construct crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroups.
Definition 1. Let G be a group. is called a group-cograded Hopf quasigroup over k, where each is a unital k-algebra with multiplication and unit , comultiplication Δ is a family of homomorphisms , and counit ϵ is a homomorphism defined by , such that the following conditions:
- (1)
whenever and , and ;
- (2)
Δ
is coassociative, in the sense that for any ,and for all the is an algebra homomorphism and .- (3)
ϵ is counitary in the sense that for any ,and ϵ is an algebra homomorphism and ; - (4)
endowed H with algebra anti-homomorphisms , then for any ,
We extend the Sweedler notation for a comultiplication in the following way: For any
,
Then, we can rewrite the conditions (
13) and (
14) as: for all
and
,
As in the Hopf group-coalgebra (or group-cograded Hopf algebra) case, we show group-cograded Hopf quasigroups are Hopf quasigroups in a special category as follows.
Proposition 1. If is a group-cograded Hopf quasigroup, then is a Hopf quasigroup in the Turaev category .
Proof. As
H is a group-cograded Hopf quasigroup and
G is a group with the multiplication
m, we can give
a unital algebra structure
by
such that
We can also give
a coalgebra structure
by
such that
are algebra maps.
Let
, then we can consider a map
in the Turaev category as the antipode of
, where
S is the antipode of the group-cograded Hopf quasigroup
H. Next, we will only check that
satisfy the condition (
7), the condition (
8) is similar. Indeed,
and
Since
H is a group-cograded Hopf quasigroup, we have
. Thus, the left hand of Equation (
7) holds, and the right hand is similar. □
Definition 2. A group-cograded Hopf quasigroup is said to be a crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup provided it is endowed with a crossing such that
- (1)
each satisfies , and preserves the counit, the antipode, and the comultiplication, i.e., for all , - (2)
π is multiplicative in the sense that for all , .
If all of its subalgebras are associative, then H is a crossed Hopf group-coalgebra introduced in [7]. In the following, we give two examples of crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroups; both examples are derived from an action of G on a Hopf quasigroup over k by Hopf quasigroup endomorphisms. Example 1. Let be a Hopf quasigroup. Set and G is the homomorphism group of H, where for each , the algebra is a copy of H. Fix an identification isomorphism of algebras . For , we define a comultiplication bywhere . The counit is defined by for . For , the antipode is given bywhere . For , the homomorphism is defined by . It is easy to check that is a crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup. Using the mirror reflection technique introduced in Turaev [
7], we can give a construction of crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroups from a fixed crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup as follows.
Theorem 1. Let be a crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup, then we can define its mirror in the following way:
- (1)
as an algebra, , for all ;
- (2)
define the comultiplication by: for , - (3)
the counit of is the original counit ϵ;
- (4)
the antipode ;
- (5)
for all , define the cross action .
Then is also a crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup.
Proof. It is easy to check that is coassociative, and is a counit of . By the definition of , , for all , naturally holds.
We will only prove Equation (
13) of
holds; the Equation (
14) of
is similar. Indeed,
and
so the Equation (
13) of
holds.
It is obvious that
is multiplicative, and each
preserves the counit, so if each
preserves the antipode and comultiplication, the mirror
of
H is also a crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup. Indeed, for all
,
thus
preserves the antipode. We finally consider comultiplication, for all
,
and
hence
preserves comultiplication. Then we conclude
is a crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup. □
Remark 1. Let H be a crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup. If is the mirror of H, then the mirror of is = H.
Example 2. Let be a crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup introduced in Example 1.
Set to be the same family of algebras with the same counit, the same action π of G, the comultiplication , and the antipode defined bywhere . By Theorem 1, becomes a crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup. Note that the crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroups and , which are defined in Examples 1 and 2, respectively, are mirrors of each other.
4. Construction of Braided Crossed Categories
Let be a crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup with a bijective antipode S. We introduce the definition of p-Yetter–Drinfeld quasimodules over H, then show the category of Yetter–Drinfeld quasimodules is a crossed category, and the subcategory of Yetter–Drinfeld modules over H is a braided crossed category.
Recall the definition of left
H-quasimodule in [
11]; we give the following definition.
Definition 3. Let V be a vector space, is called a left -quasimodule if there exists an action satisfying Using Sweelder notation, for all , (21) and (22) is equivalent to Moreover, if the condition (22) is instead by , where , then the left -quasimodule is a left -module.
Definition 4. Let V be a vector space and p a fixed element in group G. A couple is said to be a left-right p-Yetter–Drinfeld quasimodule, where V is a unital -quasimodule, and for any is a k-linear morphism, denoted by Sweedler notation (write for short) such that the following conditions are satisfied:
- (1)
V is coassociative in the sense that, for any , we have - (2)
V is counitary, in the sense that - (3)
V is crossed, in the sense that for all , and ,
Remark 2. The conditions (26) and (27) follow the definition of a Yetter–Drinfeld quasimodule in Alonso’s paper.
Given two
p-Yetter–Drinfeld quasimodules
and
, a morphism of these two
p-Yetter–Drinfeld quasimodules
is an
-linear map
and satisfies the following diagram: for any
,
that is, for all
,
Then we have the category of p-Yetter–Drinfeld quasimodules; the composition of morphisms of p-Yetter–Drinfeld quasimodules is the standard composition of the underlying linear maps. Moreover, if we assume that V is a left -module, then we say that is a left-right p-Yetter–Drinfeld module. Obviously, left-right p-Yetter–Drinfeld modules with the obvious morphisms is a subcategory of , denoted by .
Proposition 2. The Equation (25) is equivalent tofor all and . Proof. Suppose the condition (
25) holds, then we have
where the first equality follows by (
25), the others rely on the properties of the crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup.
Conversely, if the Equation (
28) holds, then
where the first equality follows by (
28), the rest follows by the properties of the crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup. □
Remark 3. According to the Equation (27), the condition (28) is equivalent to Proposition 3. If and , then with the module and comodule structures, as follows:where and . Proof. We first check that
is a left
-quasimodule, and the unital property is obvious. We only check the left hand side of Equation (22); the right hand is similar. For all
,
where the first and second equalities rely on (
30), the third equality follows by (22). Then
is a left
-quasimodule.
In the following equations, we check that the coassociative condition holds:
and
This shows that .
The counitary condition is easy to show. Then we check the crossed condition, as follows:
Finally, we check the Equation (26), and the Equation (27) is similar.
Hence . □
Following Turaev’s left index notation, let , the object have the same underlying vector space as V. Given , we denote the corresponding element in .
Proposition 4. Let and . Set as a vector space with structuresfor any and . Then . Proof. We first check that
is a left
-quasimodule. The condition (
21) is easy to check. Next, we prove the condition (
22).
The proof of the other side is similar to the above, so is a left -quasimodule, and the coassociative and counitary are also satisfied.
In the following, we show that the crossing condition holds:
Finally, we will check that the quasimodule coassociative conditions hold. We just compute the Equation (26); the Equation (27) is similar. For all
,
where the first and third equalities rely on (33); the second one follows by (26). This completes the proof. □
Proposition 5. Let and . Then is an object in , and is an object in .
Proof. We first check that is an object in . It is obvious that both and are in the category . Then we show that the action and coaction of these two -Yetter–Drinfeld quasimodules are exactly equivalent.
As
is a
-Yetter–Drinfeld quasimodule with the structures
Then, we show
is a
-Yetter–Drinfeld quasimodule with the same structures of
. Indeed, the action of
is
Hence has the same cation with .
And the coaction of
is
Hence, as an object in .
As
is a
-Yetter–Drinfeld quasimodule with the structures
Then we show
is a
-Yetter–Drinfeld quasimodule with the same structures of
. Indeed, the action of
is
Hence has the same cation with .
And the coaction of
is
Thus, as an object in . □
For a crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup H, we define as the disjoint union of all with . If we endow with tensor product as in Proposition 3, then we obtain the following result.
Theorem 2. The Yetter–Drinfeld quasimodules category is a crossed category.
Proof. By Proposition 4, we can give a group homomorphism
,
by
where the functor
acts as follows: given a morphism
, for any
, we set
.
Then it is easy to prove is a crossed category. □
Following the ideas by
lonso in [
12], we will consider
the category of left-right
p-Yetter–Drinfeld modules over
H, which is a subcategory of
.
Proposition 6. Let and . Set as an object in . Define the map Then is H-linear, H-colinear and satisfies the conditions:for . Moreover, . Proof. We first show that
is
H-linear. First, compute
so we have
, that is,
is
H-linear.
Secondly, we prove that
is
H-colinear. In fact,
Thirdly, we can find
satisfies the conditions (
35) and (36). However, here we only check the first condition, and the other is similar.
Finally, we check the condition
. Indeed,
This completes the proof. □
Similar to [
12], we can give the braided
an inverse in the following way.
Proposition 7. Let and . Then this can give the braided an inverse , which is defined bywhere . Proof. For any
, we have
Conversely, for any
,
Since is an isomorphism with inverse . □
As a consequence of the above results, we obtain another main result of this paper.
Theorem 3. Denote as the disjoint union of all with , where H is a crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup. Then is a braided crossed category over group G.
Proof. As is a subcategory of the category , so it is a crossed category. Then we only need prove is braided.
The braiding in can be given by Proposition 6, and the braiding is invertible; its inverse is the family , which is defined in Proposition 7. Hence, it is obvious that is a braided crossed category. □
Example 3. Let us consider the crossed group-cograded Hopf quasigroup in Example 1. Moreover, G is the isomorphism group of Hopf quasigroup H. If V is a Yetter–Drinfeld module of H, then we can endow V with a p-Yetter–Drinfeld module structure of , as follows:
- (1)
The left -module structure of V is a copy of the left H-module structure of V, because is an identification isomorphism of algebras;
- (2)
Define a new coaction by .
Then we can show that V is a p-Yetter–Drinfeld module over , and it is easy to check that is a braided crossed category; the braided structure is given by .