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A differential U-module algebra for U=U_q sl(2) at an even root of unity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-08-28 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We show that the full matrix algebra Mat_p(C) is a U-module algebra for U = U_q sl(2), a 2p^3-dimensional quantum sl(2) group at the 2p-th root of unity. Mat_p(C) decomposes into a direct sum of projective U-modules P^+_n with all odd n, 1<=n<=p. In terms of generators and relations, this U-module algebra is described as the algebra of q-differential operators "in one variable" with the relations D z = q - q^{-1} + q^{-2} z D and z^p = D^p = 0. These relations define a "parafermionic" statistics that generalizes the fermionic commutation relations. By the Kazhdan--Lusztig duality, it is to be realized in a manifestly quantum-group-symmetric description of (p,1) logarithmic conformal field models. We extend the Kazhdan--Lusztig duality between U and the (p,1) logarithmic models by constructing a quantum de Rham complex of the new U-module algebra.

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@article{arxiv.0809.0144,
  title  = {A differential U-module algebra for U=U_q sl(2) at an even root of unity},
  author = {AM Semikhatov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.0144},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

29 pages, amsart++, xypics. V3: The differential U-module algebra was claimed quantum commutative erroneously. This is now corrected, the other results unaffected

R2 v1 2026-06-21T11:15:28.017Z