1. Introduction
Hopf algebras are fundamental structures in algebra that combine the properties of algebras, coalgebras, and antipodes. Hopf algebras play a crucial role in various fields of mathematics and physics, such as invariant theory for knots and links, and representations closely connected to Lie theory, etc. The notion of Hopf algebra actions on algebras was introduced by Sweedler [
1] in 1969. The Brauer groups of
H-module and
H-dimodule algebras were researched by Beattie [
2]. A duality theorem for Hopf module algebras was studied by Blattner and Montgomery [
3] in 1985. Moreover, the actions of Hopf algebras [
4] and their generalizations (see, e.g., [
5]) play an important role in quantum group theory [
6,
7] and in its various applications in physics [
8]. Duplij and Sinel’shchikov used a general form of the automorphism of the quantum plane to give the notion of weight for
-actions and completely classified quantum group
-module algebra structures on the quantum plane [
9,
10], demonstrating that the results are much richer and consist of six nonisomorphic cases. Moreover, in [
11] the authors used the method of weights [
9,
10] to classify actions in terms of action matrices, studied the module algebra structures of
on the coordinate algebra of the quantum vector spaces, and researched the module algebra structures of the quantum group
on
[
11,
12]. More relevant research can be found in [
13,
14].
The non-standard quantum groups were studied in Ge et al. [
15], who obtained new solutions of Yang–Baxter equations and included the twisted extension quantum group structures related to these new solutions explicitly. In [
16] one class of non-standard quantum deformation corresponding to simple Lie algebra
was given, which is denoted by
. For each vertex
of the Dynkin diagram, the parameter
is equal to
q or
; if
for all
i, then
is just
. However, if
for some
, it has the relations
in
. Such a
is different to
. Jing et al. [
17] derived a non-standard quantum group by employing the FRT constructive method and classified all finite dimensional irreducible representations of this non-standard quantum group. Cheng and Yang [
18] considered the structures and representations of weak Hopf algebras
, which correspond to the non-standard quantum group
. We [
19] researched the representations of a class of small nonstandard quantum groups
, over which the isomorphism classes of all indecomposable modules were classified and the decomposition formulas of the tensor product of arbitrary indecomposable modules and simple (or projective) modules were established. The projective class rings and Grothendieck rings of
were also characterized. However, there are few research results on the module algebra of non-standard quantum groups. We [
20] discussed the module algebra structures of the non-standard quantum group
on the quantum plane. But the automorphism group of
is more complex, and the module algebra structures of the non-standard quantum group
on the quantum polynomial algebra
are also more complex. Consequently, based on the research results of the module algebra of quantum groups, we consider the module algebra of the non-standard quantum group
on the quantum polynomial algebra
. A complete list of
-module algebra structures on
is produced and the isomorphism classes of these structures are described. Our research offer advantages through contributing to the classification of module algebra structures of
on
for
.
This paper is organized as follows. In
Section 1, we introduce some necessary notations and concepts. In
Section 2, for
, we discuss the module algebra structures of
on the polynomial algebra
using the method of weights [
9,
10]. We study the concrete actions of
on
and characterize all module algebra structures of
on
. We present our classification in terms of a pair of symbolic matrices, which relies upon considering the low-dimensional (0-th and 1-st) homogeneous components of an action. In
Section 3, we study the module algebra structures of
on
for
. In the same way as in
Section 2, we study the concrete actions of
on
and characterize all module algebra structures of
on
.
2. Preliminaries
Throughout, we work over the complex field unless otherwise stated. All algebras, Hopf algebras, and modules are defined over ; all maps are -linear.
Let
be a Hopf algebra, where
and
are the comultiplication and counit of
H, respectively. Let
A be a unital algebra with unit
. We will also use the Sweedler notation
[
1].
Definition 1. By a structure of H-module algebra on A, we mean a homomorphism such that the following hold:
For all ,
For all .
Let and be two H-module algebras on A; the structures are said to be isomorphic if there exists an automorphism of the algebra A such that for all
We assume that
is not a root of the unit (
for all non-zero integers
n). A class of non-standard quantum algebra
was studied by Jing etc. [
17]. By definition the algebra
is a unital associative
-algebra generated by
, and subject to the following relations:
The algebra
is also a Hopf algebra, and the comultiplication
, counit
, and antipode
S are given as the following:
The quantum polynomial algebra
is a unital algebra, generated by generators
and satisfying the following relations:
Denote by the s-th homogeneous component of , which is a linear span of the monomials with . For a given polynomial , denote by the s-th homogeneous component of p, that is the projection of p onto parallel to the direct sum of all other homogeneous components of .
By [
21,
22,
23,
24], one has a description of automorphisms of the algebra
, as follows. Let
be an automorphism of
; then there exist nonzero constants
and
, such that
For all such automorphisms form the automorphism group of denoted by , one can get . In the following sections, we will explore the classificaion of -module algebra structures on .
3. Classification of -Module Algebra Structures on for
In this section, our aim is to describe the
-module algebra structures on
for
, i.e., the automorphism of
, as follows:
and
, where
.
3.1. Properties of -Module Algebras on
By the definition of module algebra, it is easy to see that any action of
on
is determined by the following
matrix with entries from
:
which is called the full action matrix. Given a
-module algebra structure on
, obviously the action of
(or
) is determined by an automorphism of
; in other words, the actions of
and
are determined by a matrix
as follows:
where
for
. It is easy to see that every monomial
is an eigenvector of
(or
), and the associated eigenvalue
(or
) is called the
-weight (or
-weight) of this monomial, which will be written as
We will also need another matrix
as follows:
Obviously, all entries of
M are weight vectors for
and
; then
where the relation
means that for every pair of indices
such that both
and
are nonzero, one has
.
We denote by
the
j-th homogeneous component of
M, whose elements are just the
j-th homogeneous components of the corresponding entries of
M. Set
where
. Then, we obtain
As
q is not a root of the unit and relations (
19) and (
20), it means that each column of
should contain at least one 0.
Applying
E and
F to the relations (
11)–(13) by using Equation (
15), one has
After projecting Equations (
21)–(26) to
, we obtain
which certainly implies
We will determine the weight constants
,
and
as follows:
Because q is not a root of the unit, . Therefore at least one of , , and , , is not zero. In summary, we have obtained the following results for the 0-th homogeneous component of .
Lemma 1. There are 7 cases for the 0-st homogeneous component of , as follows: Next, for the 1-st homogeneous component, as
q is not a root of the unit, one has
which implies
for some
, and in a similar way we have
where
. Therefore
Now project (
21)–(26) to
to obtain
which certainly implies
As a consequence, we have
From the above discussion, for the 1-st homogeneous component of , we have the following lemma.
Lemma 2. There are 13 cases for the 1-st homogeneous component of , as follows: 3.2. The Structures of -Module Algebra on
In this subsection, our aim is to describe the concrete -module algebra structures on , where .
By Lemmas 1 and 2, and the fact that q is not a root of the unit, it follows that if both the 0-th homogeneous component and the 1-th homogeneous component of are nonzero, it is easy to see that these series are empty. So, we need to consider following possibilities.
Lemma 3. If the 0-th homogeneous component of is zero and the 1-st homogeneous component of is nonzero, then these series are empty.
Proof. Now, we show that the
-series is empty. If we suppose the contrary, then it follows from
that within this series, one can have
By
, one can get
, and
; hence
and
On the other hand, projecting
to
we obtain
However,
. We have obtained contradictions and proved our claims.
In a similar way, one can prove that all other series with the 0-th homogeneous component of are zero and those within the 1-th homogeneous component of are nonzero and empty. □
Lemma 4. If the 0-th homogeneous component of is nonzero and the 1-st homogeneous component of is zero, then these series are empty.
Proof. We only show that the -series is empty. in a similar way, one can prove that all other series are empty.
Considering this series, we obtain that
and suppose that it is not empty. We set
where
, and
. We have
and then for all
with
, one has
And
then for all
with
, one has
If some
meet the conditions, i.e,
one can get
; this contradicts with
q not being unit root. Therefore, for all
with
, we have
By discussing
,
,
,
, and
using methods similar to
, we can obtain that
From
, we have
If , then
If , then ; hence and
If , then
If , then ; hence and
By , one has .
If , then
If , then ; hence and
According to
, then
In summary, this series is empty. □
Next we turn to “nonempty” series; there is only one kind of “nonempty” series.
Theorem 1. The -series has −module algebra structures on given bywhere ; they are pairwise nonisomorphic. Proof. It is easy to check that (
51)–(54) determine a well-defined
-action consistent with the multiplication in
and in
, as well as with comultiplication in
. We prove that there are no other
-actions here. Note that an application of (6) to
or
z has zero projection to
, i.e.,
, because in this series
E and
F send any monomial to a sum of the monomials of higher degree. Therefore,
and hence,
which leads to
,
and
. Let
,
, and
; we have
,
, and
. To prove (54), note that if
or
, then they are a sum of the monomials with degrees are greater than 1. This is similar to the proof of Lemma 4; we find that this is impossible, because they can not satisfy conditions of
-module algebra on
.
To see that the -module algebra structures are pairwise nonisomorphic, observe that all the automorphisms of commute with the actions of and . □
4. Classification of -Module Algebra Structures on for
In this section, we suppose the automorphism
of
as follows:
and
. One can have
In the following, we will begin to discuss the
-module algebra structures on
with
, i.e., where
. In this section, our research method is similar to that in
Section 3.
4.1. Properties of -Module Algebras on
It is easy to see that any action of
on
is determined by the following
matrix with entries from
:
Given a
-module algebra structure on
, obviously the action of
(or
) is determined by an automorphism of
; in other words, the actions of
and
are determined by a matrix
as follows:
where
for
.
Lemma 5. For all , , either or , where
Proof. For all
,
, we have
by (
56). It is to easy check
and
By the definition of module algebra and (
1), we have
for
; hence, either
or
, and we can write the latter as
, where
□
It is easy to see that every monomial
is an eigenvector of
(or
), and the associated eigenvalue
(or
) is called the
-weight (or
-weight) of this monomial, which will be written as
We will also need another matrix
as follows:
Obviously,
and
are weight vectors for
and
; then
As in
Section 3, we denote by
the
j-th homogeneous component of
M. Obviously, if
is nonzero, one can calculate the associated eigenvalues.
Set
; we obtain the 0-th homogeneous component of
M as follows:
Then, we have
According to the fact that
q is not a root of the unit, and relation (
60),
and
(
and
) should contain at least one 0.
Applying
E and
F to the relations (
11)–(13) by using Equation (
56), one has
which certainly implies
Because q is not a root of the unit, , and from the above discussion, for the 0-st homogeneous component of , we have following lemma.
Lemma 6. There are eight cases for the 0-st homogeneous component of , as follows: Next, for the 1-st homogeneous component, as
q is not a root of the unit, one has
which implies
for some
, and in a similar way we have
where
. In fact,
Now, we project (
61)–(66) to
; one can obtain the following conclusion.
If
, then
and we have
If
, then
and we have
If
, then
and we have
If
, then
and we have
From the above discussion, and as q is not a root of the unit, we can obtain the following lemma.
Lemma 7. There are 18 cases for the 1-st homogeneous component of , as follows:If , then and we haveIf , then and we haveIf , then and we haveIf , then and we have 4.2. The Structures of -Module Algebra on
Through the previous discussion, we found that both the 0-st homogeneous component and the 1-st homogeneous component determine the eigenvalues of x and z. By Lemmas 6 and 7, and as q is not a root of the unit, it follows that there are 91 kinds of , which are empty. Hence, we only discuss the following cases.
Lemma 8. If the 0-th homogeneous component of is zero and the 1-st homogeneous component of is nonzero, then these series are empty.
Proof. The proof is similar to the proof of Lemma 3. □
Lemma 9. If the 0-th homogeneous component of is nonzero and the 1-st homogeneous component of is zero, then these series are empty.
Proof. The proof is similar to the proof of Lemma 4. □
Lemma 10. The -series is empty.
Proof. By (
67), one has
, and
From Lemma 5, it can be concluded that
, where
, and
.
If we suppose this series is not empty, we have
and
; hence,
. Set
where
, and
According to (
61), one can obtain
and then for all
with
, one has
and
Similarly, we can get
. By (3) and (5), we have
and then for all
with
, one has
and
or
.
In summary, this series is empty. □
Similar to Lemma 10, we can obtain
, which are empty series.
Next we turn to “nonempty” series; there is only one “nonempty” series.
Theorem 2. The -series has two types of -module algebra structures on the given by the following.
For all , we havewhich are pairwise nonisomorphic. For all , we havewhere ; they are pairwise nonisomorphic.
Proof. The proof is similar to the proof of Theorem 1. □