Positive representations of split real simply-laced quantum groups (Q783771)

Summary: We construct the positive principal series representations for \(\mathcal U_q(\mathfrak g_\mathbb R)\) where \(\mathfrak g\) is of simply-laced type, parametrized by \(\mathbb R_{\geq 0}^r\) where \(r\) is the rank of \(\mathfrak g\). We describe explicitly the actions of the generators in the positive representations as positive essentially self-adjoint operators on a Hilbert space, and prove the transcendental relations between the generators of the modular double. We define the modified quantum group \(\mathbf U_{\mathfrak q \tilde{\mathfrak q}}(\mathfrak g_\mathbb R)\) of the modular double and show that the representations of both parts of the modular double commute weakly with each other, there is an embedding into a quantum torus algebra, and the commutant contains its Langlands dual.