Hopf algebroids and Grothendieck-Verdier duality

Abstract

Grothendieck-Verdier duality is a powerful and ubiquitous structure on monoidal categories, which generalises the notion of rigidity. Hopf algebroids are a generalisation of Hopf algebras, to a non-commutative base ring. Just as the category of finite-dimensional modules over a Hopf algebra inherits rigidity from the category of vector spaces, we show that the category of finite-dimensional modules over a Hopf algebroid with bijective antipode inherits a Grothendieck-Verdier structure from the category of bimodules over its base algebra. We investigate the algebraic and categorical structure of this duality.