We show that the exterior algebra of a vector space V of dimension greater than one admits a one-parameter family of braided Hopf algebra structures, arising from its identification with a Nichols algebra. We explicitly compute the structure constants with respect to a natural set-theoretic basis. A one-parameter family of diagonal automorphisms exists, which we use to construct solutions to the (constant) Yang--Baxter equation. These solutions are conjectured to give rise to the two-variable Links--Gould polynomial invariants associated with the super-quantum group Uq (gl (N|1) ), where N = (V). We support this conjecture through computations for small values of N.
Kashaev et al. (Wed,) studied this question.