Point modules of Nichols algebras over non-abelian groups

2026/08/04 by B. Greenfeld, L. Vendramin, S. Venkatesh
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arxiv created 2026/08/04 · arxiv updated 2026/08/05

Abstract

Nichols algebras are among the most important and mysterious objects in quantum algebra. We continue the systematic program of studying them through their point modules. We study truncated point modules of Nichols algebras associated with racks and 2-cocycles over non-abelian groups. We determine the truncated point spaces for all currently known finite-dimensional Nichols algebras arising from simple Yetter-Drinfeld modules over groups. In particular, for all such algebras the space of 3-truncated point modules is empty. We further find all truncated point modules for other important families, including affine racks equipped with the constant 2-cocycle -1, and for the non-trivial indecomposable rack of size three with the constant 2-cocycle a cubic root of one.

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