Quantum groups on fibre bundles (Q1344490)

The author gives a sheaf theoretical method to connect locality and noncommutative geometry. Furthermore within this method it is possible to define noncommutative principal fibre bundles which have quantum groups as their ``structure groups''. In the first section he finds an equivalent description of principal fibre bundles in the language of sheaves. Then a definition of very general noncommutative spaces is given in Section 2. In the following noncommutative principal bundles are defined and important objects like local coordinates, transition functions and gauge transformations are carried over to the noncommutative case. By the same concept quantum vector bundles and associated quantum vector bundles are introduced in Section 4. Additionally he studies differential calculi on quantum vector bundles. Finally \(q\)-deformed instanton models give interesting examples where local gauge transformations are set up in a noncommutative language.