scientific article; zbMATH DE number 124854

Publication date 21 February 1993

\(q\)-special functions compact Poisson-Lie groups quantum groups representation theory

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Noncommutative topology (46L85) Noncommutative differential geometry (46L87) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50)

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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0745.00063.] The paper is a profound investigation on the theory of quantum groups. It consists of the introduction and nine sections. The first section is devoted to compact Poisson-Lie groups. The crucial question is how many different Poisson-Lie group structures exist on a fixed connected simply connected simple compact group. A complet classification is given in Theorem 1.1.2. The next question is to describe the symplectic leaves of the Poisson structures listed in the author's classification. These leaves are naturally isomorphic to Schubert cells of the full flag manifold of \(G\) (connected simply connected Lie group) in an important particular case discussed in the present article. In the second section the authors consider quantized universal enveloping algebras, the notion of Hopf \(*\)-algebra being also introduced there. The latter notion, originated in G. I. Kac's pioneer works on ring groups, plays a central role in the present paper because the authors study the real forms of the complex quantum groups rather than the groups themselves. The definition of the algebra of \((K\)-finite) functions on a compact quantum group \(K\) is given in section three. With \(K=\text{SU}(n)\), a more explicit description of this algebra is given as an example. Section four deals with irreducible representations of the quantized function algebras. If the parameter \(q=\exp(h/2)\) equals 1, all these representations are one-dimensional, each corresponding to a point of the group. The finer structure of irreducible representations of a quantized function algebra is also described in section 4. Each of these representations is isomorphic to the tensor product of elementary ones, and this fact has a semiclassical counterpart. This result allows them to define the quantum analog of the Weyl group following an idea of Drinfeld. The corresponding results, together with some applications of the quantum Weyl group, are presented in section 5. Among the applications are the multiplicative formula for the universal \(R\)-matrix and a relationship with the Hecke algebras. The discussion of compact quantum groups ends in section 6, where some results are given concerning harmonic analysis on compact quantum groups: the definition of the invariant integral and an explicit formula expressing it in certain particular cases, orthogonality relations for matrix elements. Section 7 is devoted to harmonic analysis. The main results are the Plancherel formula and the Mehler-Fock formula. Much of section 7 is devoted to quantum counterparts of geometric realizations of irreducible representations of the groups \(\text{SU}(1,1)\) and \(\text{SU}(n,1)\) for \(n>1\). In connection with this, the first examples of quantum \(G\)-spaces studied in section 8 appear in section 7. The authors point out that, in contrast to quantum groups, there is no general theory of quantum \(G\)-spaces. Thus it would be appropriate to consider section 8 as a display of examples, except for the results concerning odd-dimensional quantum spheres. In section 9 some applications of quantum groups to the theory of \(q\)- special functions are considered.

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