摘要

We show that, if A is a sum of two H-commutative subalgebras, then the H-commutator ideal of A is nilpotent. This is inspired by a classical result of Kegel [9], which says that a ring is nilpotent if it is a sum of two nilpotent subrings. Then a partial analog of some results in [12] is shown in a more general quasi-triangular Hopf algebra setting.