Commutative case
On with its basis of orthogonal idempotents, multiplicativity forces each to be a sum of basis tensors with disjoint supports, so the coproduct is a partial operation . Coassociativity makes it associative, the weak unit axiom says that if is defined then is defined exactly when is, and the counit and antipode are then unique.
Theorem (Yamanouchi for -algebras; folklore over any field). Weak Hopf structures on are, up to isomorphism, the function algebras of the groupoids with arrows, and is the number of objects.
A connected groupoid is , so with the number of groups of order :
| D | a(D) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 7 |
| 5 | 9 |
| 6 | 16 |
| 7 | 22 |
| 8 | 42 |
| 12 | 204 |
| 16 | 866 |
| 20 | 3,308 |
The catalog holds all 11 111 function algebras for and their duals, the groupoid algebras ; 10 722 of the duals are new. The counts of groups match OEIS A000001 and the self-dual entries A018819. The theorem covers split algebras only: is commutative and semisimple but not , and non-split forms are open.
On a split commutative algebra the groupoid is a complete invariant: written in the primitive-idempotent basis, is its composition table. Two such algebras are isomorphic exactly when their groupoids are.