The quantum metric structure of quantum \(SU(2)\) (Q6994682)

One of the main goals of the book is to investigate the metric geometry governed by the Dirac operators. This is done by connecting the construction to Rieffel's theory of compact quantum metric spaces.\N\NThe data defining a compact quantum metric space consists of a unital \(C^{*}\)-algebra A (or, more generally, an operator system) endowed with a densely defined seminorm L, and the central requirement is that the Monge-Kantorovič extended metric on the state space S(A) metrises the weak* topology. The research shows that the quantum metric structures (the distance between different quantum states in a system's parameter space) on quantum SU(2) (non-commutative version of the classical SU(2) group, which describes rotations in three-dimensional space; analogous to their classical counterparts but operate within the non-commutative framework of the quantum group) are continuous. This continuity includes the classical case of a 3-sphere, which is recovered as a limit where the quantum metric has a global scaling factor. This indicates that quantum geometry provides a way to generalize and understand classical geometry within a more abstract framework.\N\NThe authors introduce a two-parameter family of Dirac operators on quantum SU(2) and analyze their properties from the point of view of non-commutative metric geometry (applying the concepts of metric geometry to non-commutative quantum systems). It is shown that these Dirac operators give rise to compact quantum metric structures, and that the corresponding two parameter family of compact quantum metric spaces varies continuously in Rieffel's quantum Gromov-Hausdorff distance. This continuity result includes the classical case where the book under review recovers the round 3-sphere up to a global scaling factor on the metric. The main technical tool in the book under review is a quantum SU(2) analogue of the Berezin transform (used in quantum metric geometry, particularly on quantum SU(2), to study metric properties and fuzzy approximations of operators), together with its associated fuzzy approximations, the analysis of which also leads to a systematic way of approximating Lipschitz operators by means of polynomial expressions in the generators.\N\NThe final goal of the book is to prove that the family of compact quantum metric spaces \(C(SU_q(2))\) with the Lip-norm \(L_{t,q}\) varies continuously in the quantum Gromov-Hausdorff distance