This study covers comodules, rational modules and bicomodules; cosemisimple, semiperfect and co-Frobenius algebras; bialgebras and Hopf algebras; actions and coactions of Hopf algebras on algebras; finite dimensional Hopf algebras, with the Nicholas-Zoeller and Taft-Wilson theorems and character theory; and more.

    Algebras and coalgebras; comodules; special classes of coalgebras; bialgebras and Hopf algrebras; integrals; actions and coactions; finite dimensional Hopf algebras; the category theory language; C-groups and C-cogroups.

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    Sorin Dascalescu, Constantin Nastasescu, Serban Raianu

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