%0 Journal Article %T A New Characterisation of Idempotent States on Finite and Compact Quantum Groups %A Uwe Franz %A Adam Skalski %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %R 10.1016/j.crma.2009.06.015 %X We show that idempotent states on finite quantum groups correspond to pre-subgroups in the sense of Baaj, Blanchard, and Skandalis. It follows that the lattices formed by the idempotent states on a finite quantum group and by its coidalgebras are isomorphic. We show furthermore that these lattices are also isomorphic for compact quantum groups, if one restricts to expected coidalgebras. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2362v1