Star-products and phase space realizations of quantum groups

It is shown for a family of *-products (i.e. different ordering rules) that, under a strong invariance condition, the functions of the quadratic preferred observables (which generate the Cartan subalgebra in phase space realization of Lie algebras) take only the linear or exponential form. An exception occurs for the case of a symmetric ordering *-product where trigonometric functions and two special polynomials can also be included. As an example, the quantized algebra of the oscillator Lie algebra is argued.     

A natural and rigid model of quantum groups

We introduce a natural (Fréchet-Hopf) algebra A containing all generic Jimbo algebras U _t (sl(2)) (as dense subalgebras). The Hopf structures on A extend (in a continuous way) the Hopf structures of generic U _t (sl(2)). The Universal R-matrices converge in A A. Using the (topological) dual of A, we recover the formalism of functions of noncommutative arguments. In addition, we show that all these Hopf structures on A are isomorphic (as bialgebras), and rigid in the category of bialgebras.     

Fundamental representations of quantum groups at roots of 1

To every finite-dimensional irreducible representation V of the quantum group U(g) where is a primitive lth root of unity (l odd) and g is a finite-dimensional complex simple Lie algebra, de Concini, Kac and Procesi have associated a conjugacy class C _V in the adjoint group G of g. We describe explicitly, when g is of type A _n , B _n , C _n , or D _n , the representations associated to the conjugacy classes of minimal positive dimension. We call such representations fundamental and prove that, for any conjugacy class, there is an associated representation which is contained in a tensor product of fundamental representations.     

Minimal affinizations of representations of quantum groups: the irregular case

Let be a finite-dimensional complex simple Lie algebra and U_q( ) the associated quantum group (q is a nonzero complex number which we assume is transcendental). IfV is a finitedimensional irreducible representation of U_q( ), an affinization ofV is an irreducible representationVV of the quantum affine algebra U_q( ) which containsV with multiplicity one and is such that all other irreducible U_q( )-components ofV have highest weight strictly smaller than the highest weight ofV. There is a natural partial order on the set of U_q( ) classes of affinizations, and we look for the minimal one(s). In earlier papers, we showed that (i) if is of typeA, B, C, F orG, the minimal affinization is unique up to U_q( )-isomorphism; (ii) if is of typeD orE and is not orthogonal to the triple node of the Dynkin diagram of , there are either one or three minimal affinizations (depending on ). In this paper, we show, in contrast to the regular case, that if U_q( ) is of typeD ₄ and is orthogonal to the triple node, the number of minimal affinizations has no upper bound independent of .As a by-product of our methods, we disprove a conjecture according to which, if is of typeA _n,every affinization is isomorphic to a tensor product of representations of U_q( ) which are irreducible under U_q( ) (in an earlier paper, we proved this conjecture whenn=1).Both authors were partially supported by the NSF, DMS-9207701.     

Duality for a Lorentz quantum group

We give the algebra _q ^/* dual to the matrix Lorentz quantum group _q of Podles-Woronowicz, and Watamuraet al. As a commutation algebra, it has the classical form _q ^/* U _q (sl(2, )) U _q (sl(2, )). However, this splitting is not preserved by the coalgebra structure which we also give. For the derivation, we use a generalization of the approach of Sudbery, viz. tangent vectors at the identity.     

Fusion structures from quantum groups: II. Why truncation is necessary

It is shown that a finite, reflection positive, and nontruncated fusion structure on an arbitrary Hopf algebra is trivial in the sense thatq-traces coincide with ordinary traces andq-dimensions coincide with ordinary dimensions. Thus, nontruncated fusion structures are ruled out to describe the fusion rules of quantum field theories with noninteger statistical dimensions and a finite number of superselection sectors.Work supported in part by DFG, SFB 288 Differentialgeometrie und Quantenphysik.     

R-matrix method for Heisenberg quantum groups

TheR-matrix method is systematically applied to get several Heisenberg quantum groups depending on two or three parameters. It turns out that the associatedR-matrices have to verify a weaker form of the QYBE. Only for particular cases of quantum groups, we can imposeR to be a solution of the QYBE. The corresponding quantum Heisenberg Lie algebras are obtained by duality.     

On a possible algebra morphism of U q [osp(1/2n)] onto the deformed oscillator algebra W q (n)

We formulate a conjecture stating that the algebra ofn pairs of deformed Bose creation and annihilation operators is a factor algebra of U _q [osp(1/2n)], considered as a Hopf algebra, and prove it for then = 2 case. To this end, we show that for any value ofq, U _q [osp(1/4)] can be viewed as a superalgebra freely generated by two pairsB ₁ ^± ,B ₂ ^± of deformed para-Bose operators. We write down all Hopf algebra relations, an analogue of the Cartan-Weyl basis, the commutation relations between the generators and a basis in U _q [osp(1/2n)] entirely in terms ofB ₁ ^± ,B ₂ ^± .     

Boson realizations of quantum algebras and some physical spaces with quantum algebra symmetry

The generators ofq-boson algebra are expressed in terms of those of boson algebra, and the relations among the representations of a quantum algebra onq-Fock space, on Fock space, and on coherent state space are discussed in a general way. Two examples are also given to present concrete physical spaces with quantum algebra symmetry. Finally, a new homomorphic mapping from a Lie algebra to boson algebra is presented.This work is supported by the National Foundation of Natural Science of China.     

Braided differential operators on quantum algebras

We propose a general scheme of constructing braided differential algebras via algebras of “quantum exponentiated vector fields” and those of “quantum functions”. We treat a reflection equation algebra as a quantum analog of the algebra of vector fields. The role of a quantum function algebra is played by a general quantum matrix algebra. As an example we mention the so-called RTT algebra of quantized functions on the linear matrix group GL(m)$GL\left(m\right)$. In this case our construction essentially coincides with the quantum differential algebra introduced by S. Woronowicz. If the role of a quantum function algebra is played by another copy of the reflection equation algebra we get two different braided differential algebras. One of them is defined via a quantum analog of (co)adjoint vector fields, the other algebra is defined via a quantum analog of right-invariant vector fields. We show that the former algebra can be identified with a subalgebra of the latter one. Also, we show that “quantum adjoint vector fields” can be restricted to the so-called “braided orbits” which are counterparts of generic GL(m)$GL\left(m\right)$-orbits in gl^∗(m)$g{l}^{\ast }\left(m\right)$. Such braided orbits endowed with these restricted vector fields constitute a new class of braided differential algebras.     

Singular vectors of quantum group representations for straight Lie algebra roots

We give explicit formulae for singular vectors of Verma modules over U_q(G), where G is any complex simple Lie algebra. The vectors we present correspond exhaustively to a class of positive roots of G which we call straight roots. In some special cases, we give singular vectors corresponding to arbitrary positive roots. For our vectors we use a special basis of U_q(G ^-), where G ^- is the negative roots subalgebra of G, which was introducted in our earlier work in the case q=1. This basis seems more economical than the Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt type of basis used by Malikov, Feigin, and Fuchs for the construction of singular vectors of Verma modules in the case q=1. Furthermore, this basis turns out to be part of a general basis recently introduced for other reasons by Lusztig for U_q(^-), where ^- is a Borel subalgebra of G.A. v. Humboldt-Stiftung fellow, permanent address and after 22 September 1991: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria.     

On quantum multi-hamiltonian systems

On studying various examples with one degree of freedom, we discuss the possibility of extending the classical concept of multi-Hamiltonian systems to the quantum domain. We show that an adaptation is possible in each case generally leading to distinguish classes of systems characterized globally by their observable algebras.     

Quantum algebras for maximal motion groups ofN-dimensional flat spaces

An embedding method to getq-deformations for the nonsemisimple algebras generating the motion groups ofN-dimensional flat spaces is presented. This method gives a global and simultaneous scheme ofq-deformation for all iso(p, q) algebras and for those obtained from them by some Inönü-Wigner contractions, such as theN-dimensional Euclidean, Poincaré, and Galilei algebras.     

A quantum deformation of the Virasoro algebra and the Macdonald symmetric functions

A quantum deformation of the Virasoro algebra is defined. The Kac determinants at arbitrary levels are conjectured. We construct a bosonic realization of the quantum deformed Virasoro algebra. Singular vectors are expressed by the Macdonald symmetric functions. This is proved by constructing screening currents acting on the bosonic Fock space.     

A star-product approach to noncompact quantum groups

Using the duality and the topological theory of well-behaved Hopf algebras, we construct star-product models of noncompact quantum groups from Drinfeld and Reshetikhin standard deformations of enveloping Hopf algebras of simple Lie algebras. Our star-products act not only on coefficient functions of finite-dimensional representations, but actually on allC functions, and they even exist for nonlinear (semi-simple) Lie groups.     

Quantum Heisenberg groups and sklyanin algebras

New bialgebra structures on the Heisenberg-Lie algebra and their quantizations are introduced. Some of these quantizations give rise to new multiplications in homogeneous coordinate rings of Abelian varieties, via the well-known identification of theta functions with suitable matrix coefficients of the Stone-von Neumann representations.N.A.: Forschungsstipendiat der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. J. D. and A. T.: Postdoctoral fellowship, ICTP. N. A. and A. T.: This work was also partially supported by CONICET, CONICOR and FAMAF, Argentina.     

Metric on quantum spaces

We introduce the analogue of the metric tensor in the case ofq-deformed differential calculus. We analyse the consequences of the existence of the metric, showing that this enforces severe restrictions on the parameters of the theory. We discuss in detail examples of the Manin plane and theq-deformation of SU(2). Finally we touch the topic of relations with Connes' approach.Partially supported by KBN grant 2P 302 168 4.     

Construction of a new quantum double and new solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation

A new quantum double is established from a new Hopf algebra and a new kind of quantum R-matrix is obtained.     

Differential calculi on quantum vector spaces with Hecke-type relations

From a vector spaceV equipped with a Yang-Baxter operatorR one may form the r-symmetric algebraS _R V=TV/v w–R(v w), which is a quantum vector space in the sense of Manin, and the associated quantum matrix algebraM _R V=T(End(V))/f g–R(f g)R ^-1. In the case whenR satisfies a Hecke-type identityR ²=(1–q)R+q, we construct a differential calculus _R V forS _R V which agrees with that constructed by Pusz, Woronowicz, Wess, and Zumino whenR is essentially theR-matrix of GL _q (n). Elements of _R V may be regarded as differential forms on the quantum vector spaceS _R V. We show that _R V isM _R V-covariant in the sense that there is a coaction _*: _R V M _R V _R V with _*d=(1 d)_* extending the natural coaction :S _R V M _R V S _R V.     

A quantum dual pair \mathfraks\mathfrakl2 ,\mathfrakon \mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{l}_2 ,\mathfrak{o}_n and the associated Capelli identity

A quantum analogue of the dual pair is introduced in terms of the oscillator representation of U _q . Its commutant and the associated identity of Capelli type are discussed.