Braided coproduct, antipode and adjoint action for $U_q(sl_2)$

Abstract: Motivated by our attempts to construct an analogue of the Dirac operator in the setting of $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_n)$, we write down explicitly the braided coproduct, antipode, and adjoint action for quantum algebra $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$. The braided adjoint action is seen to coincide with the ordinary quantum adjoint action, which also follows from the general results of S. Majid.