Two-cocycles and cleft extensions in left braided categories

We define two-cocycles and cleft extensions in categories that are not necessarily braided, but where specific objects braid from one direction, like for a Hopf algebra [Formula: see text] a Yetter–Drinfeld module braids from the left with [Formula: see text]-modules. We will generalize classical results to this context and give some application for the categories of Yetter–Drinfeld modules and [Formula: see text]-modules. In particular, we will describe liftings of coradically graded Hopf algebras in the category of Yetter–Drinfeld modules with these techniques.

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We study some examples of braided categories and quasitriangular Hopf algebras and decide which of them is pseudosymmetric, respectively pseudotriangular. We show also that there exists a universal pseudosymmetric braided category.