Critical CoHAs, vertex coalgebras and Deformed Drinfeld coproducts

Abstract: We construct a vertex coproduct on the Kontsevich--Soibelman cohomological Hall algebra (CoHA) of a quiver with potential, following Joyce (2018). We show it forms a vertex bialgebra. By applying a vertex algebraic analogue of Majid--Radford bosonisation, we form an extension of the CoHA of quivers with potential which incorporates a Cartan part. In the case of ADE quivers our vertex coproduct recovers Drinfeld's deformed coproduct on the Yangian. We compare the vertex coproduct with a localised coproduct defined by Davison and with the construction of Dotsenko--Mozgovoy when the potential is trivial. Our construction gives a new proof of the cohomological integrality theorem for symmetric quivers with trivial potential.