Path subcoalgebras, finiteness properties and quantum groups

Abstract

We study subcoalgebras of path coalgebras that are spanned by paths (called path subcoalgebras) and subcoalgebras of incidence coalgebras, and propose a unifying approach for these classes. We discuss the left quasi-co-Frobenius and the left co-Frobenius properties for these coalgebras. We classify the left co-Frobenius path subcoalgebras, showing that they are direct sums of certain path subcoalgebras arising from the infinite line quiver or from cyclic quivers. We investigate which of the co-Frobenius path subcoalgebras can be endowed with Hopf algebra structures, in order to produce some quantum groups with non-zero integrals, and we classify all these structures over a field with primitive roots of unity of any order. These turn out to be liftings of quantum lines over certain not necessarily abelian groups.