A quantum duality principle for coisotropic subgroups and Poisson quotients

We develop a quantum duality principle for coisotropic subgroups of a (formal) Poisson group and its dual: namely, starting from a quantum coisotropic subgroup (for a quantization of a given Poisson group) we provide functorial recipes to produce quantizations of the dual coisotropic subgroup (in the dual formal Poisson group). By the natural link between subgroups and homogeneous spaces, we argue a quantum duality principle for Poisson homogeneous spaces which are Poisson quotients, i.e. have at least one zero-dimensional symplectic leaf. As an application, we provide an explicit quantization of the homogeneous -space of Stokes matrices, with the Poisson structure given by Dubrovin and Ugaglia.     

Hardy type spaces associated with compact unitary groups

We investigate Hilbertian Hardy type spaces of complex analytic functions of infinite many variables, associated with compact unitary groups and the corresponding invariant Haar’s measures. For such analytic functions we establish a Cauchy type integral formula and describe natural domains. Also we show some relations between constructed spaces of analytic functions and the symmetric Fock space.     

On the similarity problem for locally compact quantum groups

A well-known theorem of Day and Dixmier states that any uniformly bounded representation of an amenable locally compact group G on a Hilbert space is similar to a unitary representation. Within the category of locally compact quantum groups, the conjectural analogue of the Day–Dixmier theorem is that every completely bounded Hilbert space representation of the convolution algebra of an amenable locally compact quantum group should be similar to a ?-representation. We prove that this conjecture is false for a large class of non-Kac type compact quantum groups, including all q-deformations of compact simply connected semisimple Lie groups. On the other hand, within the Kac framework, we prove that the Day–Dixmier theorem does indeed hold for several new classes of examples, including amenable discrete quantum groups of Kac-type.     

History and Perspectives of Quantum Groups

The advent of Quantum Groups in the course of the working out the quantum analogue of the Inverse Scattering Method from the soliton theory gives an instructive example of interinfluence of different domains of mathematics. Here I give a rather personal account of this development. Leonardo da Vinci Lecture held on November 7, 2005 Received: June 2006     

Expanding maps on compact metric spaces

The notions of locally expansive, positively expansive, expanding in the sense of Ruelle and expanding in the sense of Duvall and Husch are equivalent in a quite general setting.     

The distribution of class groups of function fields

For any sufficiently general family of curves over a finite field F_q and any elementary abelian ?-group H with ? relatively prime to q, we give an explicit formula for the proportion of curves C for which Jac(C)[?](F_q)≅H. In doing so, we prove a conjecture of Friedman and Washington.     

Existence and controllability results for impulsive partial functional differential inclusions

In this paper we prove the existence and the controllability of mild and extremal mild solutions for first-order semilinear densely defined impulsive functional differential inclusions in separable Banach spaces with local and nonlocal conditions.     

Positive definite functions of finitary isometry groups over fields of odd characteristic

This paper is part of a programme to describe the lattice of all two-sided ideals in complex group algebras of simple locally finite groups. Here we determine the extremal normalized positive definite functions for finitary groups of isometries, defined over fields of odd characteristic.     

Fixed point theorems for holomorphic mappings and operator theory in indefinite metric spaces

In this paper we establish several new results on the existence and uniqueness of a fixed point for holomorphic mappings and one-parameter semigroups in Banach spaces. We also present an application to operator theory on spaces with an indefinite metric.     

Minimizing movements and evolution problems in Euclidean spaces

We study evolution curves of variational type, called minimizing movements, obtainedvia a time discretization and minimization method. We analyze examples in Euclidean spaces, where some classes of minimizing movements are solutions of suitable ordinary differential equations of gradient flow type. Finally, we construct an example to show that in general these evolution curves are not maximal slope curves. Entrata in Redazione il 3 gennaio 1997.     

Infinite dimensional groups and quantum field theory

This paper surveys recent work on representations of infinite dimensional groups and the connection with quantum field theory.     

A global and stochastic analysis approach to bosonic strings and associated quantum fields

We construct a probability measure giving a mathematical realization of Polyakov's heuristic measure for bosonic strings in space-time dimensions 3d13, having as world sheet compact Riemann surfaces of arbitrary genus. The measure involves the path space measures for scalar fields with exponential interaction on and a measure on Teichmüller space.Deceased 24 January 1988     

K-amenability for amalgamated free products of amenable discrete quantum groups

The basic notions and results of equivariant KK-theory concerning crossed products can be extended to the case of locally compact quantum groups. We recall these constructions and prove some useful properties of subgroups and amalgamated free products of discrete quantum groups. Using these properties and a quantum analogue of the Bass-Serre tree, we establish the K-amenability of amalgamated free products of amenable discrete quantum groups.     

The regularity problem for generalized harmonic maps into homogeneous spaces

Let be a Riemannian surface and be a standard sphere, or more generally a Riemannian manifold on which a Lie group,, acts transitively by isometries. We define generalized harmonic maps by extending the notion of weakly harmonic maps in a natural way (motivated by Noether's Theorem), to mapsu W _loc ^1,1 (, ). We prove that, under some slight technical restrictions, for 1 <-p < 2, there are generalized harmonic mapsu W ^1,p(, ) that are everywhere discontinuous (in particular, this solves an open problem proposed by F. Bethuel, H. Brezis and F. Hélein, in [BBH]). We also show that the natural -regularity condition for such maps is to require <u to belong to the Lorentz space L(2, ). To prove this -regularity result we extend a compensated compactness result of R. Coifman, P.-L. Lions, Y. Meyer and S. Semmes, proved in [CLMS], to the case of Lorentz spaces in duality.     

Dual affine quantum groups

Let be an untwisted affine Kac-Moody algebra, with its Sklyanin-Drinfel'd structure of Lie bialgebra, and let be the dual Lie bialgebra. By dualizing the quantum double construction – via formal Hopf algebras – we construct a new quantum group , dual of . Studying its specializations at roots of 1 (in particular, its semi-classical limits), we prove that it yields quantizations of and (the formal Poisson group attached to ), and we construct new quantum Frobenius morphisms. The whole picture extends to the untwisted affine case the results known for quantum groups of finite type. Received January 27, 1999     

Gauss laws in the sense of Bernstein and uniqueness of embedding into convolution semigroups on quantum groups and braided groups

Summary. The goal of this paper is to characterise certain probability laws on a class of quantum groups or braided groups that we will call nilpotent. First we introduce a braided analogue of the Heisenberg–Weyl group, which shall serve as standard example. We introduce Gaussian functionals on quantum groups or braided groups as functionals that satisfy an analogue of the Bernstein property, i.e. that the sum and difference of independent random variables are also independent. The corresponding functionals on the braided line, braided plane and a braided q-Heisenberg–Weyl group are determined. Section 5 deals with continuous convolution semigroups on nilpotent quantum groups and braided groups. We extend recent results proving the uniqueness of the embedding of an infinitely divisible probability law into a continuous convolution semigroup for simply connected nilpotent Lie groups to nilpotent quantum groups and braided groups. Finally, in Section 6 we give some indications how the semigroup approach of Heyer and Hazod to the Bernstein theorem on groups can be extended to quantum groups and braided groups. Received: 30 October 1996 / In revised form: 1 April 1997     

Compact quantum metric spaces and ergodic actions of compact quantum groups

We show that for any co-amenable compact quantum group A=C(G) there exists a unique compact Hausdorff topology on the set EA(G) of isomorphism classes of ergodic actions of G such that the following holds: for any continuous field of ergodic actions of G over a locally compact Hausdorff space T the map T→EA(G) sending each t in T to the isomorphism class of the fibre at t is continuous if and only if the function counting the multiplicity of γ in each fibre is continuous over T for every equivalence class γ of irreducible unitary representations of G. Generalizations for arbitrary compact quantum groups are also obtained. In the case G is a compact group, the restriction of this topology on the subset of isomorphism classes of ergodic actions of full multiplicity coincides with the topology coming from the work of Landstad and Wassermann. Podle? spheres are shown to be continuous in the natural parameter as ergodic actions of the quantum SU(2) group. We also introduce a notion of regularity for quantum metrics on G, and show how to construct a quantum metric from any ergodic action of G, starting from a regular quantum metric on G. Furthermore, we introduce a quantum Gromov-Hausdorff distance between ergodic actions of G when G is separable and show that it induces the above topology.     

Fixed point theorems for a class of nonlinear operators in Banach spaces and applications

In this paper, we study a class of nonlinear operator equations with more extensive conditions in ordered Banach spaces. By using the cone theory and Banach contraction mapping principle, the existence and uniqueness of solutions for such equations are investigated without demanding the existence of upper and lower solutions and compactness and continuity conditions. The results in this paper are applied to a class of abstract semilinear evolution equations with noncompact semigroup in Banach spaces and the initial value problems for nonlinear second-order integro-differential equations of mixed type in Banach spaces. The results obtained here improve and generalize many known results.