Prime regular Hopf Algebras of GK-dimension One

Abstract

This paper constitutes the first part of a program to classify all affine prime regular Hopf algebras $H$ of Gelfand-Kirillov dimension one over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. We prove a number of properties of such an algebra, list some classes of examples, and then prove that - when the PI-degree of $H$ is prime - our list contains all such algebras.