On the semiduals of local isometry groups in 3d gravity

Details On the semiduals of local isometry groups in 3d gravity On the semiduals of local isometry groups in 3d gravity

2011-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/1109.4086v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

32 pages, explanations added in introduction and typos corrected

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We use factorisations of the local isometry groups arising in 3d gravity for Lorentzian and Euclidean signatures and any value of the cosmological constant to construct associated bicrossproduct quantum groups via semidualisation. In this way we obtain quantum doubles of the Lorentz and rotation groups in 3d, as well as kappa-Poincare algebras whose associated r-matrices have spacelike, timelike and lightlike deformation parameters. We confirm and elaborate the interpretation of semiduality proposed in [12] as the exchange of the cosmological length scale and the Planck mass in the context of 3d quantum gravity. In particular, semiduality gives a simple understanding of why the quantum double of the Lorentz group and the kappa-Poincare algebra with spacelike deformation parameter are both associated to 3d gravity with vanishing cosmological constant, while the kappa-Poincare algebra with a timelike deformation parameter can only be associated to 3d gravity if one takes the Planck mass to be imaginary.

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