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Hodge Star as Braided Fourier Transform

Quantum Algebra 2016-05-12 v2 Representation Theory

Abstract

We study super-braided Hopf algebras Λ\Lambda primitively generated by finite-dimensional right crossed (or Drinfeld-Radford-Yetter) modules Λ1\Lambda^1 over a Hopf algebra AA which are quotients of the augmentation ideal A+A^+ under right multiplication and the adjoint coaction. Here super-bosonisation Ω=AΛ\Omega=A\ltimes\Lambda provides a bicovariant differential graded algebra on AA. We introduce Λmax\Lambda_{max} providing the maximal prolongation, while the canonical braided-exterior algebra Λmin=B(Λ1)\Lambda_{min}=B_-(\Lambda^1) provides the Woronowicz exterior calculus. In this context we introduce a Hodge star operator \sharp by super-braided Fourier transform on B(Λ1)B_-(\Lambda^1) and left and right interior products by braided partial derivatives. Our new approach to the Hodge star (a) differs from previous approaches in that it is canonically determined by the differential calculus and (b) differs on key examples, having order 3 in middle degree on k[S3]k[S_3] with its 3D calculus and obeying the qq-Hecke relation 2=1+(qq1)\sharp^2=1+(q-q^{-1})\sharp in middle degree on kq[SL2]k_q[SL_2] with its 4D calculus. Our work also provided a Hodge map on quantum plane calculi and a new starting point for calculi on coquasitriangular Hopf algebras AA whereby any subcoalgebra LAL\subseteq A defines a sub braided-Lie algebra and Λ1L\Lambda^1\subseteq L^* provides the required data A+Λ1A^+\to \Lambda^1.

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@article{arxiv.1511.00190,
  title  = {Hodge Star as Braided Fourier Transform},
  author = {Shahn Majid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.00190},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

36 pages latex 4 pdf figures; minor revision; added some background in calculus on quantum plane; improved the intro clarity

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