On a Morita equivalence between the duals of quantum \(SU(2)\) and quantum \(\widetilde E(2)\) (Q655370)

Woronowicz studied the \(q\)-deformation \(SU_{q}(2)\) of the compact Lie group \(SU(2)\) and the \(q\)-deformation \(\widetilde{E}_{q}(2)\) which is the non-trivial double cover of the Euclidean Lie group \(E(2)\). The authors prove that the duals of these groups are Morita equivalent locally compact quantum groups. In other words, the authors prove that the corresponding von Neumann algebraic quantum groups are unitary cocycle deformations of each other. Two von Neumann algebras are called \(W^{\star}\)-Morita equivalent if there exists a linking von Neumann algebra between them. The paper ends with a couple of interesting remarks which are worth investigating.