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Plane curves which are quantum homogeneous spaces

Quantum Algebra 2018-10-24 v1 Rings and Algebras

Abstract

Let C\mathcal{C} be a decomposable plane curve over an algebraically closed field kk of characteristic 0. That is, C\mathcal{C} is defined in k2k^2 by an equation of the form g(x)=f(y)g(x) = f(y), where gg and ff are polynomials of degree at least 2. We use this data to construct 3 pointed Hopf algebras, A(x,a,g)A(x,a,g), A(y,b,f)A(y,b,f) and A(g,f)A(g,f), in the first two of which gg [resp. ff] are skew primitive central elements, and the third being a factor of the tensor product of the first two. We conjecture that A(g,f)A(g,f) contains the coordinate ring O(C)\mathcal{O}(\mathcal{C}) of C\mathcal{C} as a quantum homogeneous space, and prove this when each of gg and ff has degree at most 5 or is a power of the variable. We obtain many properties of these Hopf algebras, and show that, for small degrees, they are related to previously known algebras. For example, when gg has degree 3 A(x,a,g)A(x,a,g) is a PBW deformation of the localisation at powers of a generator of the downup algebra A(1,1,0)A(-1,-1,0).

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@article{arxiv.1810.09509,
  title  = {Plane curves which are quantum homogeneous spaces},
  author = {Ken Brown and Angela Tabiri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.09509},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Preliminary version, comments are welcome. Main text 32 pages. Pages 33-84 form an Appendix, detailed calculations for proof of Proposition 2.8. Appendix will not be in published version

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