Nonlinear Commutation Relations: Representations by Point-Supported Operators

We present a class of non-Lie commutation relations admitting representations by point-supported operators (i.e., by operators whose integral kernels are generalized point-supported functions). For such relations we construct all operator-irreducible representations (up to equivalence). Each representation is realized by point-supported operators in the Hilbert space of antiholomorphic functions. We show that the reproducing kernels of these spaces can be represented via hypergeometric series and the theta function, as well as via their modifications. We construct coherent states that intertwine abstract representations with irreducible representations.     

Harmonic analysis and systems of covariance for phase space representation of the poincaré group

Continuing some earlier work on the Galilei group, the spectral resolution of phase space representations of the Poincaré group is achieved by deriving all possible decompositions into irreducible representations corresponding to reproducing, kernel Hilbert spaces. Systems of covariance related to quantum measurements performed with extended test particles are analyzed, and questions of global unitarity discussed.Supported in part by NSERC Research Grants.     

Finite dimensional quantum Teichmüller space from the quantum torus at root of unity

Representation theory of the quantum torus Hopf algebra, when the parameter q is a root of unity, is studied. We investigate a decomposition map of the tensor product of two irreducibles into the direct sum of irreducibles, realized as a ‘multiplicity module’ tensored with an irreducible representation. The isomorphism between the two possible decompositions of the triple tensor product yields a map T between the multiplicity modules, called the 6j-symbols. We study the left and right dual representations, and correspondingly, the left and right representations on the Hom spaces of linear maps between representations. Using the isomorphisms of irreducibles to left and right duals, we construct a map A on a multiplicity module, encoding the permutation of the roles of the irreducible representations in the identification of the multiplicity module as the space of intertwiners between representations. We show that T and A satisfy certain consistency relations, forming a Kashaev-type quantization of the Teichmüller spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces. All constructions and proofs in the present work use only plain representation theoretic language with the help of the notions of the left and the right dual and Hom representations, and therefore can be applied easily to other Hopf algebras for future works.     

Unitary Representations of the Quantum Lorentz Group and Quantum Relativistic Toda Chain

We give a group theory interpretation of the three types of q-Bessel functions. We consider a family of quantum Lorentz groups and a family of quantum Lobachevsky spaces. For three values of the parameter of the quantum Lobachevsky space, the Casimir operators correspond to the two-body relativistic open Toda-chain Hamiltonians whose eigenfunctions are the modified q-Bessel functions of the three types. We construct the principal series of unitary irreducible representations of the quantum Lorentz groups. Special matrix elements in the irreducible spaces given by the q-Macdonald functions are the wave functions of the two-body relativistic open Toda chain. We obtain integral representations for these functions.     

Duality for Convex Monoids

Every C*-algebra gives rise to an effect module and a convex space of states, which are connected via Kadison duality. We explore this duality in several examples, where the C*-algebra is equipped with the structure of a finite-dimensional Hopf algebra. When the Hopf algebra is the function algebra or group algebra of a finite group, the resulting state spaces form convex monoids. We will prove that both these convex monoids can be obtained from the other one by taking a coproduct of density matrices on the irreducible representations. We will also show that the same holds for a tensor product of a group and a function algebra.     

Why is quantum physics based on complex numbers?

The modern quantum theory is based on the assumption that quantum states are represented by elements of a complex Hilbert space. It is expected that in future quantum theory the number field will not be postulated but derived from more general principles. We consider the choice of the number field in a quantum theory based on a finite field. We assume that the symmetry algebra is the finite field analog of the de Sitter algebra so(1,4) and consider spinless irreducible representations of this algebra. It is shown that the finite field analog of complex numbers is the minimal extension of the residue field modulo p for which the representations are fully decomposable.     

Pointed representations of Virasoro algebra

In this paper we study the pointed representations of the Virasoro algebra. We show that unitary irreducible pointed representations of the Virasoro algebra are Harish-Chandra representations, thus they either are of highest or lowest weights or have all weight spaces of dimension 1. Further, we prove that unitary irreducible weight representations of Virasoro superalgebras are either of highest weights or of lowest weights, hence they are also Harish-Chandra representations. This work was supported by CNSF     

Quantum solvable algebras. Ideals and representations at roots of 1

Let R be a quantum solvable algebra. It is proved that every prime ideal I of R which is stable with respect to the quantum adjoint action is completely prime, and Fract(R/I) is isomorphic to the skew field of fractions of an algebra of twisted polynomials. We study the correspondence between symplectic leaves and irreducible representations. A conjecture of De Concini-Kac-Procesi on the dimension of irreducible representations is proved for sufficiently large l.     

Class of representations of skew derivation Lie algebra over quantum torus

Let L be the skew derivation Lie algebra of the quantum torus ℂ_q. In this paper, we give a class of irreducible representations for L with infinite dimensional weight spaces.      

Differential equations in vertex algebras and simple modules for the Lie algebra of vector fields on a torus

We study irreducible representations for the Lie algebra of vector fields on a 2-dimensional torus constructed using the generalized Verma modules. We show that for a certain choice of parameters these representations remain irreducible when restricted to a loop subalgebra in the Lie algebra of vector fields. We prove this result by studying vertex algebras associated with the Lie algebra of vector fields on a torus and solving non-commutative differential equations that we derive using the vertex algebra technique.     

A Family of Irreducible Representations of the Witt Lie Algebra with Infinite-Dimensional Weight Spaces

We define a 4-parameter family of generically irreducible and inequivalent representations of the Witt Lie algebra on which the infinitesimal rotation operator acts semisimply with infinite-dimensional eigenspaces. They are deformations of the (generically indecomposable) representations on spaces of polynomial differential operators between two spaces of tensor densities on S ¹, which are constructed by composing each such differential operator with the action of a rotation by a fixed angle.     

Extended harmonic analysis of phase space representations for the Galilei group

The spectral resolution of phase space representations of the Galilei group is achieved by deriving all possible decompositions into irreducible representations corresponding to reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Spectral syntheses in terms of eigenfunction expansions, as well as in terms of continuous resolutions of the identity, are achieved. For the latter, the existence, uniqueness and other basic properties of resolution generators are established. This is shown to lead to systems of covariance related to measurements of stochastic phase space values performed with extended quantum test particles, whose proper wavefunctions are the aforementioned resolution generators.Supported in part by NSERC Research Grants.     

Representations of quantum orders

We study finite-dimensional algebras that appear as fibers of quantum orders over a given point of variety of center. We present a formula for the number of irreducible representations and check it for the algebra of twisted polynomials, the quantum Weyl algebra, and the algebra of regular functions on a quantum group. __________ Translated from Fundamentalnaya i Prikladnaya Matematika, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 157–167, 2005.     

Algebra with polynomial commutation relations for the Zeeman effect in the Coulomb-Dirac field

We consider a model of particle motion in the field of an electromagnetic monopole (in the Coulomb-Dirac field) perturbed by homogeneous and inhomogeneous electric fields. After quantum averaging, we obtain an integrable system whose Hamiltonian can be expressed in terms of the generators of an algebra with polynomial commutation relations. We construct the irreducible representations of this algebra and its hypergeometric coherent states. We use these states to represent the eigenfunctions of the original problem in terms of the solutions of the model ordinary differential equation. We also present the asymptotic approximations of the eigenvalues in the leading term of the perturbation theory, where the degeneration of the spectrum is removed completely.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 142, No. 1, pp. 127–147, January, 2005.     

On simple modules over conformal Galilei algebras

We study irreducible representations of two classes of conformal Galilei algebras in 1-spatial dimension. We construct a functor which transforms simple modules with nonzero central charge over the Heisenberg subalgebra into simple modules over the conformal Galilei algebras. This can be viewed as an analogue of oscillator representations. We use oscillator representations to describe the structure of simple highest weight modules over conformal Galilei algebras. We classify simple weight modules with finite dimensional weight spaces over finite dimensional Heisenberg algebras and use this classification and properties of oscillator representations to classify simple weight modules with finite dimensional weight spaces over conformal Galilei algebras.     

Gaudin models with irregular singularities

We introduce a class of quantum integrable systems generalizing the Gaudin model. The corresponding algebras of quantum Hamiltonians are obtained as quotients of the center of the enveloping algebra of an affine Kac-Moody algebra at the critical level, extending the construction of higher Gaudin Hamiltonians from B. Feigin et al. (1994) [17] to the case of non-highest weight representations of affine algebras. We show that these algebras are isomorphic to algebras of functions on the spaces of opers on P¹ with regular as well as irregular singularities at finitely many points. We construct eigenvectors of these Hamiltonians, using Wakimoto modules of critical level, and show that their spectra on finite-dimensional representations are given by opers with trivial monodromy. We also comment on the connection between the generalized Gaudin models and the geometric Langlands correspondence with ramification.     

Representations of centrally-extended Lie algebras over differential operators and vertex algebras

We construct irreducible modules of centrally-extended classical Lie algebras over left ideals of the algebra of differential operators on the circle, through certain irreducible modules of centrally-extended classical Lie algebras of infinite matrices with finite number of nonzero entries. The structures of vertex algebras associated with the vacuum representations of these algebras are determined. Moreover, we prove that under certain conditions, the highest-weight irreducible modules of centrally-extended classical Lie algebras of infinite matrices with finite number of nonzero entries naturally give rise to the irreducible modules of the simple quotients of these vertex algebras. From vertex algebra and its representation point of view, our results with positive integral central charge are high-order differential operator analogues of the well-known WZW models in conformal field theory associated with affine Kac-Moody algebras. Indeed, when the left ideals are the algebra of differential operators, our Lie algebras do contain affine Kac-Moody algebras as subalgebras and our results restricted on them are exactly the representation contents in WZW models. Similar results with negative central charge are also obtained.     

Characterization of Shift-Invariant Spaces on a Class of Nilpotent Lie Groups with Applications

Given a simply connected nilpotent Lie group having unitary irreducible representations that are square-integrable modulo the center, we use operator-valued periodization to give a range-function type characterization of shift-invariant spaces of function on the group. We then give characterizations of frame and Riesz families for shift-invariant spaces.     

Reduction of discontinuity for derivations on Frechet algebras

We consider strictly irreducible representations with whichthe discontinuity of a derivation on a (locally multiplicativelyconvex) Fréchet algebra must be associated. Only thosestrictly irreducible representations which are compatible withthe topology of the algebra are considered. The main resultsshow that when consideration is fixed upon each seminorm, theexceptional set of primitive ideals supporting the discontinuitymust be a finite set, with each ideal being the kernel of somefinite-dimensional irreducible representation. This result isthe best possible, as can be seen by considering the radicalFréchet algebra constructed by Charles Read with identityadjoined which has a derivation with separating ideal that isthe entire algebra, and one could take (countable) Fréchetproducts of his counterexample. It is also proved that derivationson commutative Fréchet algebras, the structure spacesof which are compact metric in the weak* topology, have onlyfinitely many such exceptional points overall.