Dynamical Yang-Baxter Equation and Quantum Vector Bundles

We develop a categorical approach to the dynamical Yang-Baxter equation (DYBE) for arbitrary Hopf algebras. In particular, we introduce the notion of a dynamical extension of a monoidal category, which provides a natural environment for quantum dynamical R-matrices, dynamical twists, etc. In this context, we define dynamical associative algebras and show that such algebras give quantizations of vector bundles on coadjoint orbits. We build a dynamical twist for any pair of a reductive Lie algebra and its Levi subalgebra. Using this twist, we obtain an equivariant star product quantization of vector bundles on semisimple coadjoint orbits of reductive Lie groups.The research is supported in part by the Israel Academy of Sciences grant no. 8007/99-03, the Emmy Noether Research Institute for Mathematics, the Minerva Foundation of Germany, the Excellency Center Group Theoretic Methods in the study of Algebraic Varieties of the Israel Science foundation, and by Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant no. 03-01-00593.Deceased January 2004Acknowledgement We are grateful to J. Bernstein, V. Ostapenko, and S. Shnider for stimulating discussions within the Quantum groups seminar at the Department of Mathematics, Bar Ilan University. We appreciate useful remarks by M. Gorelik, V. Hinich, and A. Joseph during a talk at the Weizmann Institute. Our special thanks to P. Etingof for his comments on various aspects of the subject.