QUANTUM MINORS ASSOCIATED TO YANG-BAXTER OPERATORS (Q4532318)

The principal aim of this paper is to investigate determinants in a noncommutative context. The authors prove that there is an essentially unique way of defining `determinants' characterized by the usual properties, at least in the following situation. Let \(A=\bigoplus_{\mu\in\Delta}A_\mu\) be a graded, \(\varepsilon\)-commutative algebra over the field \(K\), where \(\Delta\) is an Abelian group, and \(\varepsilon\colon\Delta\times\Delta\to K\setminus\{0\}\) is a symmetric bicharacter. \(\varepsilon\)-commutativity means that the homogeneous elements of \(A\) satisfy \(ab=\varepsilon(|a|,|b|)ba\). Let \(M\) be a graded \(A\)-module. The authors use the representations induced by the Yang-Baxter operators constructed in a previous work to associate to the matrix of any endomorphism of \(M\) a collection of minors, called quantum minors, and prove that these minors satisfy the following properties. They take values in \(A\); they are polynomial functions on the matrix entries; they are multiplicative, and a Laplace-like expansion holds for them; the usual determinant, the various \(\mathbb{Z}_2\)-graded determinants, and the quantum and multiparametric quantum determinants are obtained as particular cases for specific choices of \(\Delta\) and \(\varepsilon\).