Symmetric algebras of corepresentations and smash products

Abstract

We investigate Frobenius algebras and symmetric algebras in the monoidal category of right comodules over a Hopf algebra $H$; for the symmetric property $H$ is assumed to be cosovereign. If $H$ is finite dimensional and $A$ is an $H$-comodule algebra, we uncover the connection between $A$ and the smash product $A\# H^*$ with respect to the Frobenius and symmetric properties.