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The eight nonisomorphic Drinfel'd double (DD) structures for the Poincar\'e Lie group in (2+1) dimensions are explicitly constructed in the kinematical basis. Also, the two existing DD structures for a non-trivial central extension of the…

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The following work demonstrates the viability of Poincar\'e symmetry in a discrete universe. We develop the technology of the discrete principal Poincar\'e bundle to describe the pairing of (1) a hypercubic lattice `base manifold' labeled…

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Let $(M,g)$ an open and oriented riemannian manifold. The aim of this paper is to study some properties of the two following sequences of $L^2$ cohomology groups: $H^i_{2,m\rightarrow M}(M,g)$ defined as the image…

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