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q-Deformed quaternions and su(2) instantons

Quantum Algebra 2009-11-13 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We have recently introduced the notion of a q-quaternion bialgebra and shown its strict link with the SO_q(4)-covariant quantum Euclidean space R_q^4. Adopting the available differential geometric tools on the latter and the quaternion language we have formulated and found solutions of the (anti)selfduality equation [instantons and multi-instantons] of a would-be deformed su(2) Yang-Mills theory on this quantum space. The solutions depend on some noncommuting parameters, indicating that the moduli space of a complete theory should be a noncommutative manifold. We summarize these results and add an explicit comparison between the two SO_q(4)-covariant differential calculi on R_q^4 and the two 4-dimensional bicovariant differential calculi on the bi- (resp. Hopf) algebras M_q(2),GL_q(2),SU_q(2), showing that they essentially coincide.

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@article{arxiv.0710.5381,
  title  = {q-Deformed quaternions and su(2) instantons},
  author = {Gaetano Fiore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.5381},
  year   = {2009}
}

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