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Does the canonical element associated to a finite dimensional $\mathbb{C}^* $-Hopf algebra always have finite order?
Let $\mathcal{A}$ be a finite dimensional $\mathbb{C}^* $-Hopf algebra. Let $B(\mathcal{A})$ be a basis of $\mathcal{A}$ and let
$B(\mathcal{A}^* )=\{ \delta_x\in\mathcal{A}^* | x\in B(\mathcal{A}) \}$...
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Finiteness of the number of Hopf subalgebras
Let $H$ be a finite-dimensional Hopf algebra over the complex field.
Question: Does $ H $ have a finite number of Hopf subalgebras?
In the case where $ H $ is semisimple, the answer is yes. According ...
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What is $\left[ \begin{array}{c} K_i;0\\ \ell\\ \end{array} \right] _{\varepsilon _i}$ in the restricted specialization in QUE algebras?
I have a question about the book A Guide to Quantum Groups written by Vyjayanthi Chari and Andrew Pressley. It comes from section $9.3$ on page $300$ of this book
In Section 9.1, the authors define ...
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Does there exist a nontrivial triangular weak Hopf algebra?
Quasitriangular weak Hopf algebras (QWHAs) are defined in Nikshych-Turaev-Vainerman (2000): A QWHA is a pair
($H,\mathcal{R}$) where $H$ is a WHA and
$\mathcal{R} \in \Delta^{op}(1)(H\otimes H)\Delta(...
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Cohomology for quantum groups
I'm interested in quantum groups for two perspectives:
Compact quantum groups in the sense of Woronowicz.
Deformation of the universal enveloping algebra of a Lie algebra in the sense of Drinfeld &...
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Quantum Hilbert's fifth problem
Hilbert's fifth problem inquires whether every locally Euclidean group is necessarily a Lie group. Von Neumann demonstrated that this is indeed true for the compact case.
The definition of a quantum ...
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Is the Drinfeld element of a semisimple quasitriangular Hopf algebra invariant under the Drinfeld twist?
Let $A$ be a finite dimensional semisimple quasitriangular Hopf algebra over $\mathbb{C}$ with universal $R$-matrix denoted by $\mathcal{R}\in A\otimes A$. The Drinfeld element of $A$ is defined as
$$...
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Does a dual basis for $U_h(\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{C}))$ exist?
Let $\mathcal{F}_h(\operatorname{SL}_2(\mathbb{C}))$ be the $\mathbb{C}[[h]]$-algebra generated by $a, b, c, d$ subject to the following relations:
\begin{align*}
& ac = e^{-h}ca, \quad bd = e^{-h}...
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A question about q-binomials at roots of unity
I have a question about a lemma $9.3.6$ in the book A Guide to Quantum Groups written by Vyjayanthi Chari and Andrew Pressley. This question comes from page 301, "The restricted specialization&...
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Coproduct on $U_q(sl_2)$
Recall that $U_q(sl_2)$ is the quotient of the free associative $\mathbb{Q}(q)$-algebra on generators $E$, $F$, $K^{\pm 1}$ such that $KE = q^2 EK$, $KF = q^{-2} FK$, and $[E,F] = \frac{K - K^{-1}}{q -...
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Are all enveloping algebras $\mathcal{U}(\mathfrak{g})$ locally compact quantum groups?
Let us consider the enveloping algebra $\mathcal{U}(\mathfrak{g})$ of some Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$.
Under what assumptions about $\mathfrak{g}$, does the enveloping algebra generate a locally ...
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Smallest finite dimensional $\mathbb{C}^*$-Hopf algebra that is not "strongly group theoretical"
In this question, let us call a finite dimensional $\mathbb{C}^*$ Hopf algebra $H$ strongly group theoretical if there exists a finite group $G$ such that one of the following three equivalent ...
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Representations of $D(G)$ as an object in the center of $\operatorname{Rep}(G)$
Let $G$ be a finite group and $D(G)$ its quantum double. As in my previous question, a typical irreducible representation (finite dimensional over $\mathbb{C}$) is labeled by $(\theta,\pi)$, where $\...
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Affiliating the whole algebra of 'coordinates' with a locally compact quantum group
When constructing a quantum deformation of a classical (matrix) locally compact group, we usually start with the *-Hopf algebra $A$ of matrix entries/coordinates. We then deform this algebra ($A_q$) ...
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Proof that every commutative locally compact quantum group arises from a locally compact group
It is well-known that there is a bijection (up to isomorphisms) between locally compact quantum groups whose algebra is commutative and classical locally compact groups. I seem to cannot find a proof ...
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quantum invariants, ribbon Tannakian duality and classification of ribbon Hopf algebras
In a nutshell, my question is:
Q0: is there a classification of invariant of (framed) tangles arising from the Reshetikhin–Turaev construction?
I will now make it more precise. One could define a ...
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How to get $U(N)_k$ Kac-Moody modules and characters from $N \cdot k$ Dirac Fermions using $U(N \cdot k)_1 / SU(k)_N$?
It is known that the $U(N)_k$ Kac-Moody algebra can be written as the coset $U(N)_k = U(N \cdot k)_1 / SU(k)_N$. (This fact is related to the level-rank duality of $U(N)_k \leftrightarrow U(k)_N$.) A ...
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Coloured Jones polynomial at 4th root of unity and Arf invariant
Looking at the link invariants of $\operatorname{SU}(2)$ Chern-Simons theory, if we take the coloured Jones polynomial of a knot K, say $J_N^K$ at fundamental representation $N=2$, then we get the ...
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Explicit correspondence between classical double and quantum double
Proposition 12.3 of Etingof and Schiffmann's "Lectures on Quantum Groups" states the following claim.
Proposition 12.3. Let $H$ be a quantized enveloping algebra and let $\mathfrak{g}$ be ...
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What is quantum algebra?
This might be a very naive question. But what is quantum algebra, really?
Wikipedia defines quantum algebra as "one of the top-level mathematics categories used by the arXiv". Surely this cannot be a ...
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An alternative Cauchy theorem on Hopf algebras
Let $\mathbb{A}$ be a finite dimensional Hopf ${\rm C}^{\star}$-algebra.
There already exists a generalization of Cauchy theorem using exponent, see [KSZ06].
We are interesting in an alternative ...
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When does Morita equivalence between two Hopf-von Neumann algebras imply also equivalence of their categories of comodules?
Let $A$ and $B$ be two Hopf-von Neumann (bi)algebras. Furthermore, let us assume that we know that they are Morita equivalent as von Neumann algebras (i.e. their categories of appropriate ...
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Is there an explicit description of a gauge transformation $F$ such that $U_{\hbar}(\mathfrak{g})$ and $(U(\mathfrak{g})[[\hbar]])_F$ are isomorphic?
Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a semisimple Lie algebra, let $t$ be its canonical 2-tensor, and let $\Phi_{KZ}$ be a Drinfeld associator.When $R_{KZ}=e^{\hbar t/2}$, $(U(\mathfrak{g})[[\hbar]],\Phi_{KZ},R_{KZ})...
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Does $U_q (\mathfrak{sl}_2)$ have a universal $R$-matrix?
Consider the standard quantum group $U_q (\mathfrak{sl}_2)$ over the field $\mathbb{C}(q)$ of rational functions (or over $\mathbb{C}$ if $q \in \mathbb{C}$ is not a root of unity), with the usual ...
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How to construct the quantum group $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}(2))$ from the quantum coordinate ring $\operatorname{SL}_q(2)$?
Let $k$ be the ground field, and $q$ be an invertible element with $q$ not being a root of unity.
Let $\operatorname{SL}_q(2)$ be the quantum coordinate ring of $\operatorname{SL}(2)$ given explicitly ...
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Finite-dimensional representations of quantum $SU(2)$
The most famous of all the quantum groups is $SU_q(2)$ - the Quantum special unitary group. The irreducible comodules of this quantum group are very well understood - they are labelled by integers (or ...
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A filtration on Drinfeld-Jimbo quantum enveloping algebras
For the universal enveloping algebra $U(\frak{g})$ of a Lie algebra $\frak{g}$, one can define in a natural way an increasing $\mathbb{N}_{0}$-filtration. By the Poincaré-Birkhoff–Witt theorem, the ...
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Examples of (weak-)bialgebras/Hopf algebras with a finite dimensional unitary representation and corepresentation and polynomial growth rate
I need examples (the more the better, even better if there is a systematic way of construction) of (weak-)bialgebras or (weak-)Hopf algebras $H$ with a finite dimensional representation $\rho$ and a ...
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A variant of quantum harmonic oscillators
We have the following variant of harmonic oscillators.
$$
\left\{
\begin{array}{**lr**}
T = a + a^\dagger\\
a | n \rangle = \sqrt{[n]} |n-1 \rangle \\
a^\dagger |n\rangle = \sqrt{[n+1]} |n+1\...
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Morphism of discrete quantum groups
In the paper Kazhdan's Property T for Discrete Quantum Groups
, we read the following fragment:
First, note that I think there is a typo and that codomain and domain of the dual maps have to be ...
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Quantum group associated to a reductive group
In most of the classical references about quantum groups, these objects are defined as a one-parameter deformation of the universal enveloping algebra. However, I have read in several papers that it ...
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Drinfeld-Jimbo quantum groups for $q=0$
In the Wikipedia page of Drinfeld--Jimbo quantum groups the values of $q=0,1$ are excluded so as to avoid dividing by zero. The $q=1$ case is discussed in this old question. What about the $q=0$ case? ...
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Quantized Enveloping Algebras at $q=1$
As is well-known, the quantized enveloping algebra $U_q(\frak{sl}_2)$ is not well-defined when $q=1$ because of the relation
$$
[E,F] = \frac{K-K^{-1}}{q-q^{-1}}.
$$
To address this problem, one has ...
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Show that if $V\in M(B_0(H)\otimes A)$, then $V(B(H)\otimes 1)V^*\not\subseteq B(H)\otimes A$ where $A$ is a specific unital $C^*$-algebra
Let $\mathbb{G}$ be a compact (quantum group) with function algebra $(C(\mathbb{G}), \Delta)$ and Haar state $\varphi_{\mathbb{G}}$. Consider the associated GNS-representation $\pi_{\mathbb{G}}: C(\...
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What is the ring structure on Lusztig's integral form of quantum $\mathfrak{sl}(2)$?
Consider the quantum group $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$, with generators $E,F,K$ such that $[E,F]=\frac{K-K^{-1}}{q-q^{-1}}$. Write $[n]=\frac{q^n-q^{-n}}{q-q^{-1}}$, and $[n]!=[n][n-1]\dotsm[1]$.
In ...
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$U_q(\mathfrak{g})$ is to knot theory as $U_q(\hat{\mathfrak{g}})$ is to $?$
Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a finite dimensional semisimple Lie algebra over the complex numbers, e.g. $\mathfrak{sl}_n$.
Then every representation $\DeclareMathOperator\Rep{Rep}V\in \Rep U_q(\mathfrak{g})$ ...
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The dual of elements $E$, $F$, and $H$ of $U_h(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$ corresponds to which element of $F_h(\mathrm{SL}_2)$ by isomorphism?
$\newcommand{\sl}{\mathfrak{sl}}\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}$Let $U_h(\sl_2)$ be the quantized universal enveloping algebra of $\sl_2(\mathbb{C})$ and $F_h(\SL_2)$ be the quantized function algebra of $...
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Quantum exterior algebra
In Generalisation of the quantum exterior algebra the quantum exterior algebra is discussed:
$$
K\langle x_1,\dotsc x_n\rangle/(x_i^2,x_i x_j + q_{i,j}x_j x_i),
$$
with nonzero field elements $q_{i,j}...
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parameter of a quantum group
I am currently learning about quantum groups, and I got a question about how two different ways of thinking the $q$-parameter of quantum groups are related to each other. Here by a quantum group, I ...
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How to make sense of $\mathrm{Mat}_q(n \times n)$? Are there notions of quantum vector space, quantum linear algebra, etc?
Given some algebra $\mathcal{A}$ and $q \in \mathbb{C}$, we say that a matrix $M \in \mathrm{Mat}(n \times n ; \mathcal{A})$ is a quantum matrix in $\mathrm{Mat}_q(n \times n)$ iff the following ...
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Completely isometric coaction of discrete quantum group is multiplicative?
Let $\mathbb{G}$ be a compact quantum group (in the sense of Woronowicz) with discrete dual $\widehat{\mathbb{G}}$ which we view as a von Neumann algebraic locally compact quantum group (in the sense ...
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How many definitions are there of the Jones polynomial?
Even with the connection to quantum groups being made clearer (I believe it was not known when the Jones polynomial was first introduced), it seems to me that still we don't have the "right" ...
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Unitary in adjointable operators associated with equivariant Hilbert module
Consider the following fragment from the article "Tannaka–Krein duality for compact quantum
homogeneous spaces. I. General theory" by De Commer and Yamashita:
How exactly is $\mathcal{E}\...
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Reference request: decomposability of $\mathbb{G}$-Hilbert modules
Let $\mathbb{G}$ be a compact quantum group, $B$ be a $C^*$-algebra together with a right action
$$\beta: B \to B\otimes C(\mathbb{G})$$ which is a non-degenerate $*$-homomorphism satisfying $(\beta \...
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How to define $U_q \mathfrak{g}$ without generators and relations?
I'm trying to learn something about quantum groups. The related definitions tend to consist of formulas which are not extremely intuitive, on the first glance. So I wonder how the amount of formulas ...
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Noncommutative group schemes corresponding to quantum groups
I'm not an expert on quantum groups by any stretch, so forgive me if this question seems overly naive. That said, I was wondering if there is a way (or if there has been any attempt in the literature) ...
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Intuition behind the definition of quantum groups
Being far from the field of quantum groups, I have nevertheless made in the past several (unsuccessful) attempts to understand their definition and basic properties. The goal of this post is to try to ...
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Is there a good differential calculus for quantum SU(3)?
For quantum $\operatorname{SU}(2)$, Woronowicz gave a well differential calculus. If we denote the generators of quantum $\operatorname{SU}(2)$ by $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$, then the ideal of $\ker(\epsilon)$...
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Reference request : table of quantum Clebsch-Gordan coefficient
From a quick Google search, one can find a table of the first Clebsch-Gordan coefficient. For example this table. Those are used to pass between the tensor product bases and the bases as sum of ...
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Relation between the modular categories SU(2)_n and Sp(n)_1
The online database [1] provides a list of some modular tensor categories classified by rank. Let us consider the two modular categories denoted kmA1_$\ell$ and kmC$\ell$_1 (i.e. Kac Moody $A_1$ level ...