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Gauge groups and bialgebroids

Quantum Algebra 2021-11-12 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the Ehresmann--Schauenburg bialgebroid of a noncommutative principal bundle as a quantization of the gauge groupoid of a classical principal bundle. We show that the gauge group of the noncommutative bundle is isomorphic to the group of bisections of the bialgebroid, and we give a crossed module structure for the bisections and the automorphisms of the bialgebroid. Examples illustrating these constructions include: Galois objects of Taft algebras, a monopole bundle over a quantum spheres and a not faithfully flat Hopf--Galois extension of commutative algebras. The latter two examples have in fact a structure of Hopf algebroid for a suitable invertible antipode.

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@article{arxiv.2104.09258,
  title  = {Gauge groups and bialgebroids},
  author = {Xiao Han and Giovanni Landi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.09258},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

33 pages. Sect. 5.1 expanded. Few minor changes. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2002.06097

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