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Generalization and Deformation of Drinfeld quantum affine algebras

q-alg 2008-02-03 v2 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Drinfeld gave a current realization of the quantum affine algebras as a Hopf algebra with a simple comultiplication for the quantum current operators. In this paper, we will present a generalization of such a realization of quantum Hopf algebras. As a special case, we will choose the structure functions for this algebra to be elliptic functions to derive certain elliptic quantum groups as a Hopf algebra, which degenerates into quantum affine algebras if we take certain degeneration of the structure functions.

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@article{arxiv.q-alg/9608002,
  title  = {Generalization and Deformation of Drinfeld quantum affine algebras},
  author = {Jintai Ding and Kenji Iohara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:q-alg/9608002},
  year   = {2008}
}

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12 pages, Amslatex. Minor changes and references are added