First-order differential calculi over multi-braided quantum groups (Q1018537)

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.