Classifying bicrossed products of two Taft algebras

Abstract

We classify all Hopf algebras which factorize through two Taft algebras $\mathbb{T}_{n^{2}}(\bar{q})$ and respectively $T_{m^{2}}(q)$. To start with, all possible matched pairs between the two Taft algebras are described: if $\bar{q} \neq q^{n-1}$ then the matched pairs are in bijection with the group of $d$-th roots of unity in $k$, where $d = (m,\,n)$ while if $\bar{q} = q^{n-1}$ then besides the matched pairs above we obtain an additional family of matched pairs indexed by $k^{*}$. The corresponding bicrossed products (double cross product in Majid's terminology) are explicitly described by generators and relations and classified. As a consequence of our approach, we are able to compute the number of isomorphism types of these bicrossed products as well as to describe their automorphism groups.