Free unitary groups are (almost) simple.

DOI10.1063/1.4764860MaRDI QIDQ2872401zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexandru Chirvasitu

Publication date 14 January 2014

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.4779

zbMATH Keywords

universal quantum groupssimple compact quantum groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ring-theoretic aspects of quantum groups (16T20) Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50)

Abstract: We show that the quotients of Wang and Van Daele's universal quantum groups by their centers are simple in the sense that they have no normal quantum subgroups, thus providing the first examples of simple compact quantum groups with non-commutative fusion rings.

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