Classifying bicrossed products of two Sweedler's Hopf algebras

Abstract

In this paper we continue the study started recently in \cite{ABMbp} by describing and classifying all Hopf algebras $E$ that factorize through two Sweedler's Hopf algebras. Equivalently, we classify all bicrossed products $H_4 \bowtie H_4$. There are three steps in our approach. First, we explicitly describe the set of all matched pairs $(H_4, H_4, \triangleright, \triangleleft)$ by proving that, with the exception of the trivial pair, this set is parameterized by the ground field $k$. Then, for any $\lambda \in k$, we describe by generators and relations the associated bicrossed product, \mathcal{H}_{16, \, \lambda}$. This is a 16-dimensional, pointed, unimodular and non-semisimple Hopf algebra. A Hopf algebra $E$ factorizes through $H_4$ and $H_4$ if and only if $ E \cong H_4 \ot H_4$ or $E \cong \mathcal{H}_{16,\, \lambda}$. In the last step we classify these quantum groups by proving that there are only three isomorphism classes represented by: $H_4 \ot H_4$, $\mathcal{H}_{16, \, 0}$ and $\mathcal{H}_{16, \, 1} \cong D(H_4)$, the Drinfel'd double of $H_4$. The automorphism group of these objects is also computed: in particular, we prove that $\Aut_{\rm Hopf}\big(D(H_4)\big)$ is isomorphic to a semidirect product of groups, $k^{\times} \rtimes \mathbb{Z}_2$.