Matched pairs and Yetter-Drinfeld braces

It is proven that a matched pair of actions on a Hopf algebra H is equivalent to the datum of a Yetter-Drinfeld brace, which is a novel structure generalising Hopf braces. This improves a theorem by Angiono, Galindo and Vendramin, originally stated for cocommutative Hopf braces. These Yetter-Drinfeld braces produce Hopf algebras in the category of Yetter-Drinfeld modules over H, through an operation that generalises Majid's transmutation. A characterisation of Yetter-Drinfeld braces via 1-cocycles, in analogy to the one for Hopf braces, is given. Every coquasitriangular Hopf algebra H will be seen to yield a Yetter-Drinfeld brace, where the additional structure on H is given by the transmutation. We compute explicit examples of Yetter-Drinfeld braces on the Sweedler's Hopf algebra, on the algebras E (n), on SLₐ (2), and an example in the class of Suzuki algebras.