Graded Poisson-Lie structures on general linear groups (Q1817630)

A Lie-Poisson structure on the general linear group \(G=GL(N)\) is considered. This structure is defined by the Sklyanin bracket associated with the \(r\)-matrix being the lift of the standard \(r\)-matrix for \(SL(N)\). It is shown that the Poisson bracket of functions on \(GL(N)\) can be extended to a graded Lie bracket on the exterior algebra \(\Omega(G)\) of differential forms, which satisfies the Leibniz rule, and which is compatible with the graded coproduct \(\Delta: \Omega(G)\rightarrow\Omega(G)\otimes\Omega(G)\) associated with the group multiplication \(\mu:G\times G\rightarrow G\). In fact, there are two such graded Poisson brackets given in an explicit form up to natural equivalence. In other words, there are two graded Poisson-Hopf structures on \(\Omega(G)\) extending the canonical Poisson-Lie structure on \(G\). The second part of the paper is devoted to the relation of these Poisson-Hopf structures to quantum bicovariant differential calculi. It is shown that the semiclassical limits of two canonical differential calculi on the quantum \(GL_q(N)\) are nothing but the graded Poisson-Hopf structures described above.