Homological Integrals for Weak Hopf Algebras

Abstract

We introduce the notion of a homological integral for an infinite-dimensional weak Hopf algebra and use the homological integral to prove several structure theorems. For example, we prove that the Artin--Schelter property and the Van den Bergh condition are equivalent for a noetherian weak Hopf algebra, and that the antipode is automatically invertible in this case. We also prove a decomposition theorem that states that any weak Hopf algebra finite over an affine center is a direct sum of Artin--Schelter Gorenstein, Cohen--Macaulay, GK dimension homogeneous weak Hopf algebras.