Quantum Groups, Non-Commutative Differential Geometry and Applications

Details Quantum Groups, Non-Commutative Differential Geometry and Applications Quantum Groups, Non-Commutative Differential Geometry and Applications

1993-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9312075v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

137 pages, PhD thesis

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The topic of this thesis is the development of a versatile and geometrically motivated differential calculus on non-commutative or quantum spaces, providing powerful but easy-to-use mathematical tools for applications in physics and related sciences. A generalization of unitary time evolution is proposed and studied for a simple 2-level system, leading to non-conservation of microscopic entropy, a phenomenon new to quantum mechanics. A Cartan calculus that combines functions, forms, Lie derivatives and inner derivations along general vector fields into one big algebra is constructed for quantum groups and then extended to quantum planes. The construction of a tangent bundle on a quantum group manifold and an BRST type approach to quantum group gauge theory are given as further examples of applications. The material is organized in two parts: Part I studies vector fields on quantum groups, emphasizing Hopf algebraic structures, but also introducing a `quantum geometric' construction. Using a generalized semi-direct product construction we combine the dual Hopf algebras \A\ of functions and \U\ of left-invariant vector fields into one fully bicovariant algebra of differential operators. The pure braid group is introduced as the commutant of $\Delta (\U)$. It provides invariant maps $\A \to \U$ and thereby bicovariant vector fields, casimirs and metrics. This construction allows the translation of undeformed matrix expressions into their less obvious quantum algebraic counter parts. We study this in detail for quasitriangular Hopf algebras, giving the determinant and

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