Mathematics – Quantum Algebra
Scientific paper
1996-11-04
Mathematics
Quantum Algebra
15 pages, plain TEX
Scientific paper
This is an attempt to generalize some basic facts of homological algebra to the case of "complexes" in which the differential satisfies the condition $d^N=0$ instead of the usual $d^2=0$. Instead of familiar sign factors, the constructions related to such "N-complexes" involve powers of q where q is a primitive Nth root of 1. We show that the homology (in a natural sense) of an N-complex is an $(N-1)$-complex which is $(N-1)$-exact, and the role of the Euler characteristic is played by the trigonometric sum $\sum q^i \dim(C^i)$. By q-deforming the de Rham differential we develop a version of the theory of differential forms which is coordinate-dependent but covariant with respect to a natural Hopf algebra. In particular, there is a meaningful formalism of connections with the curvature being an N-form given by the N th power of the covariant derivative. For $N=3$ the expression for the curvature is very similar to the Chern-Simons functional. This text was written in 1991.
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