Abstract
The notion of a modied Rota-Baxter algebra comes from the
combination of those of a Rota-Baxter algebra and a modied Yang-Baxter
equation. In this paper, we rst construct free modied Rota-Baxter algebras.
We then equip a free modied Rota-Baxter algebra with a bialgebra structure
by a cocycle construction. Under the assumption that the generating algebra
is a connected bialgebra, we further equip the free modied Rota-Baxter alge-
bra with a Hopf algebra structure.