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Quantum automorphism groups of connected locally finite graphs and quantizations of discrete groups

Quantum Algebra 2024-02-12 v3 Operator Algebras

Abstract

We construct for every connected locally finite graph Π\Pi the quantum automorphism group QAut Π\text{QAut}\ \Pi as a locally compact quantum group. When Π\Pi is vertex transitive, we associate to Π\Pi a new unitary tensor category C(Π)\mathcal{C}(\Pi) and this is our main tool to construct the Haar functionals on QAut Π\text{QAut}\ \Pi. When Π\Pi is the Cayley graph of a finitely generated group, this unitary tensor category is the representation category of a compact quantum group whose discrete dual can be viewed as a canonical quantization of the underlying discrete group. We introduce several equivalent definitions of quantum isomorphism of connected locally finite graphs Π\Pi, Π\Pi' and prove that this implies monoidal equivalence of QAut Π\text{QAut}\ \Pi and QAut Π\text{QAut}\ \Pi'.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2209.03770,
  title  = {Quantum automorphism groups of connected locally finite graphs and quantizations of discrete groups},
  author = {Lukas Rollier and Stefaan Vaes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.03770},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

v3: final version to appear in International Mathematics Research Notices. In this final version v3, there are several small changes and also the new proposition 3.4 providing a connection to the quantum isometry groups of arXiv:1002.2551