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Cocycle deformations for liftings of quantum linear spaces

Let $A$ be a Hopf algebra over a field $K$ of characteristic 0 and suppose there is a coalgebra projection $π$ from $A$ to a sub-Hopf algebra $H$ that splits the inclusion. If the projection is $H$-bilinear, then $A$ is isomorphic to a biproduct $R #_ξH$ where $(R,ξ)$ is called a pre-bialgebra with cocycle in the category $_{H}^{H}\mathcal{YD}$. The cocycle $ξ$ maps $R \otimes R$ to $H$. Examples of this situation include the liftings of pointed Hopf algebras with abelian group of points $Γ$ as classified by Andruskiewitsch and Schneider [AS1]. One asks when such an $A$ can be twisted by a cocycle $γ:A\otimes A\rightarrow K$ to obtain a Radford biproduct. By results of Masuoka [Ma1, Ma2], and Grünenfelder and Mastnak [GM], this can always be done for the pointed liftings mentioned above. In a previous paper [ABM1], we showed that a natural candidate for a twisting cocycle is {$λ\circ ξ$} where $λ\in H^{\ast}$ is a total integral for $H$ and $ξ$ is as above. We also computed the twisting cocycle explicitly for liftings of a quantum linear plane and found some examples where the twisting cocycle we computed was different from {$λ\circ ξ$}. In this note we show that in many cases this cocycle is exactly $λ\circξ$ and give some further examples where this is not the case. As well we extend the cocycle computation to quantum linear spaces; there is no restriction on the dimension.