nLab Hans-Jürgen Schneider

Hans-Jürgen Schneider is an algebraist, professor emeritus at LMU. He is a specialist on Hopf algebras.

Selected works

He proved a descent theorem on Hopf-Galois extensions which is an analogue of the descent along a torsor in

• Hans-Jürgen Schneider, Principal homogeneous spaces for arbitrary Hopf algebras, Israel J. Math. 72 (1990), no. 1-2, 167–195 MR92a:16047 doi

The descent theorem is also known as Schneider's descent theorem.

On Nichols algebras and related program of classification of pointed Hopf algebras

• Nicolás Andruskiewitsch, István Heckenberger, Hans-Jürgen Schneider, The Nichols algebra of a semisimple Yetter–Drinfeld module, American J. of Math. 132:6, (2010) 1493–1547 doi
• Nicolás Andruskiewitsch, H.-J. Schneider, Finite quantum groups and Cartan matrices, Adv. Math. 154 (2000), 1–45
• N. Andruskiewitsch, H.-J. Schneider, Pointed Hopf algebras, MSRI Publ. 43 (2002), 1–68.

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