First-order differential calculi over multi-braided quantum groups

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Abstract: A differential calculus of the first order over multi-braided quantum groups is developed. In analogy with the standard theory, left/right-covariant and bicovariant differential structures are introduced and investigated. Furthermore, antipodally covariant calculi are studied. The concept of the *-structure on a multi-braided quantum group is formulated, and in particular the structure of left-covariant *-covariant calculi is analyzed. A special attention is given to differential calculi covariant with respect to the action of the associated braid system. In particular it is shown that the left/right braided-covariance appears as a consequence of the left/right-covariance relative to the group action. Braided counterparts of all basic results of the standard theory are found.


The purpose of this paper is to develop a differential calculus of the first order over multi-braided quantum groups. The difference between the notion of standard braided group and the generalized notion of multi-braided quantum group used in this paper is in the behavior of the coproduct map. In the framework of this paper, two standard pentagonal diagrams expressing compatibility between the coproduct \(\varphi :A\rightarrow A\otimes A\) and the braiding \(\sigma :A\otimes A\rightarrow A\otimes A\) are replaced by a single more general octagonal diagram. In this case, a second braid operator \(\tau :A\otimes A\rightarrow A\otimes A\) comes into the picture. When \(\tau=\sigma\) the multi-braided formalism reduces to the standard braided quantum groups. If the algebra \(A\) represents a quantum space \(X\), then the concept of first-order calculus is introduced as follows: every first-order calculus over \(X\) is represented by an \(A\)-bimodule \(\Gamma\), playing the role of 1-forms on \(X\), together with a standard derivation \(d:A\rightarrow \Gamma \) playing the role of differential. Left/right-covariant and bicovariant differential structures are introduced and in addition antipodally covariant calculi are studied. Besides the author introduces the concept of the *-structure on a multi-braided quantum group and studies the *-covariant calculi.











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