Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
1996-09-18
Rev.Math.Phys. 9 (1997) 371-395
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Latex, 22 p., revised Oct.6, 1996, some references added, more historical background in the introduction, some minor technical
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0129055X97000142
We give a review and some new relations on the structure of the monodromy algebra (also called loop algebra) associated with a quasitriangular Hopf algebra H. It is shown that as an algebra it coincides with the so-called braided group constructed by S. Majid on the dual of H. Gauge transformations act on monodromy algebras via the coadjoint action. Applying a result of Majid, the resulting crossed product is isomorphic to the Drinfeld double D(H). Hence, under the so-called factorizability condition given by N. Reshetikhin and M. Semenov-Tian- Shansky, both algebras are isomorphic to the algbraic tensor product H\otimes H. It is indicated that in this way the results of Alekseev et al. on lattice current algebras are consistent with the theory of more general Hopf spin chains given by K. Szlach\'anyi and the author. In the Appendix the multi-loop algebras L_m of Alekseev and Schomerus [AS] are identified with braided tensor products of monodromy algebras in the sense of Majid, which leads to an explanation of the ``bosonization formula'' of [AS] representing L_m as H\otimes\dots\otimes H.
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