Lie Bialgebras, Fields of Cohomological Dimension at Most 2 and Hilbert's Seventeenth Problem

We investigate Lie bialgebra structures on simple Lie algebras of non-split type $A$. It turns out that there are several classes of such Lie bialgebra structures, and it is possible to classify some of them. The classification is obtained using Belavin--Drinfeld cohomology sets, which are introduced in the paper. Our description is particularly detailed over fields of cohomological dimension at most two, and is related to quaternion algebras and the Brauer group. We then extend the results to certain rational function fields over real closed fields via Pfister's theory of quadratic forms and his solution to Hilbert's Seventeenth Problem.Comment: The second version is a substantial augmentation of the first, yielding a more complete picture. Comments are welcome

An Approach to Hopf Algebras via Frobenius Coordinates I

In Section 1 we introduce Frobenius coordinates in the general setting that includes Hopf subalgebras. In Sections 2 and 3 we review briefly the theories of Frobenius algebras and augmented Frobenius algebras with some new material in Section 3. In Section 4 we study the Frobenius structure of an FH-algebra H \cite{Par72} and extend two recent theorems in \cite{EG}. We obtain two Radford formulas for the antipode in H and generalize in Section 7 the results on its order in \cite{FMS}. We study the Frobenius structure on an FH-subalgebra pair in Sections 5 and 6. In Section 8 we show that the quantum double of H is symmetric and unimodular.Comment: 24 pages. To appear: Beitrage Alg. Geo

Classification of Lie bialgebras over current algebras

In the present paper we present a classification of Lie bialgebra structures on Lie algebras of type g[[u]] and g[u], where g is a simple finite dimensional Lie algebra.Comment: 26 page

Spherical principal series of quantum Harish-Chandra modules

The non-degenerate spherical principal series of quantum Harish-Chandra modules is constructed. These modules appear in the theory of quantum bounded symmertic domains.Comment: 14 page