Chevalley property and discriminant ideals of Cayley-Hamilton Hopf Algebras

TL;DR

This paper investigates the structure and properties of Cayley-Hamilton Hopf algebras, focusing on discriminant ideals, Chevalley property, and module categories, extending recent results and providing new geometric insights.

Contribution

It establishes conditions relating discriminant ideals, Chevalley property, and automorphism group actions in Cayley-Hamilton Hopf algebras, generalizing recent findings.

Findings

Zero locus of discriminant ideals contains specific group orbits.

Discriminant ideals are trivial if the Hopf algebra has the Chevalley property.

Lowest discriminant ideal level relates to the Frobenius-Perron dimension of the Grothendieck ring.

Abstract

For any affine Hopf algebra $H$ which admits a large central Hopf subalgebra, $H$ can be endowed with a Cayley-Hamilton Hopf algebra structure in the sense of De Concini-Procesi-Reshetikhin-Rosso. The category of finite-dimensional modules over any fiber algebra of $H$ is proved to be an indecomposable exact module category over the tensor category of finite-dimensional modules over the identity fiber algebra $H/\mathfrak{m}_{\overline{\varepsilon}}H$ of $H$. For any affine Cayley-Hamilton Hopf algebra $(H,C,\text{tr})$ such that $H/\mathfrak{m}_{\overline{\varepsilon}}H$ has the Chevalley property, it is proved that if the zero locus of a discriminant ideal of $(H,C,\text{tr})$ is non-empty then it contains the orbit of the identity element of the affine algebraic group $\text{maxSpec}C$ under the left (or right) winding automorphism group action. Its proof relies on the fact that $H/\mathfrak{m}_{\overline{\varepsilon}}H$ has the Chevalley property if and only if the $\overline{\varepsilon}$-Chevalley locus of $(H,C)$ coincides with $\text{maxSpec}C$. Then, we provide a description of the zero locus of the lowest discriminant ideal of $(H,C,\text{tr})$. It is proved that the lowest discriminant ideal of $(H,C,\text{tr})$ is of level $\text{FPdim}(\text{Gr}(H/\mathfrak{m}_{\overline{\varepsilon}}H))+1$, where $\text{Gr}(H/\mathfrak{m}_{\overline{\varepsilon}}H)$ is the Grothendieck ring of the finite-dimensional Hopf algebra $H/\mathfrak{m}_{\overline{\varepsilon}}H$ and $\text{FPdim}(\text{Gr}(H/\mathfrak{m}_{\overline{\varepsilon}}H))$ is the Frobenius-Perron dimension of $\text{Gr}(H/\mathfrak{m}_{\overline{\varepsilon}}H)$. Some recent results of Mi-Wu-Yakimov about lowest discriminant ideals are generalized. We also prove that all the discriminant ideals are trivial if $H$ has the Chevalley property.