Belavin-Drinfeld quantum groups and Lie bialgebras: Galois cohomology considerations

Abstract

We relate the Belavin--Drinfeld cohomologies (twisted and untwisted) that have been introduced in the literature to study certain families of quantum groups and Lie bialgebras over a non algebraically closed field $\mathbb K$ of characteristic 0 to the standard non-abelian Galois cohomology $H^1(\mathbb K, \mathbf H)$ for a suitable algebraic $\mathbb K$-group $\mathbf H.$ The approach presented allows us to establish in full generality certain conjectures that were known to hold for the classical types of the split simple Lie algebras.