scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1030935
It is well known that the gauge theory of principal bundles provides a round mathematical framework for the description of the configuration space of a physical system that incorporates the internal and external symmetries. We recall that a principal bundle \(P\) over a base space \(B\) with a topological group \(G\) as the structure group is a locally trivial fibration \( p:P\to B\) with a continuous \(G\)-action \(\alpha :P\times G\to P\) which is free and transitive on each fibre (and hence each fibre is a copy of \(G\)). On the other hand, it is also well known that replacing a group \(G\) by its function algebra \(C( G) \), we get the notion of a Hopf algebra which generalizes the concept of groups and has recently developed into an exciting theory, called quantum groups, for deforming (or quantizing) the group structure. The author and others have worked on the problem of developing a quantum version of the gauge theory in a way parallel to the development of quantum group theory. Replacing the topological (or spatial) objects of a principal bundle by their function algebras, the author and Brzeziński naturally defined and studied a quantum principal bundle as an \(H\)-comodule algebra \(P\) with an algebra homomorphism \(\alpha :P\to P\otimes H\) as the coaction, where \(H\) is a quantum group and \(P\) is regarded as the function algebra of an imaginary total space, and with the fixed point subalgebra \(M=\{ u\in P:\alpha ( u) =u\otimes 1\} \) regarded as the function algebra of an imaginary base space, such that \(\alpha \) is surjective (for the freeness of the group action) and \(\chi :P\otimes _M P\to P\otimes H\) defined by \( \chi ( u\otimes v) :=( \cdot \otimes \text{id}) ( u\otimes \alpha ( v) ) \) is injective (for the transitivity of the group action) where \(\cdot :P\otimes P\to P\) is the multiplication operation. In this paper, the author first gives some remarks about this quantum gauge theory, for example, explicit formulae relating connection forms on quantum principal bundles and the corresponding covariant projections, and some interesting new phenomenon caused by the fact that the fibre automorphism introduced by Brzeziński is usually not an algebra homomorphism in the noncommutative case. Then he describes a braided group gauge theory in which the structure group is a braided group instead of a quantum group. (This theory is a special case of the generalized coalgebra gauge theory developed by the author and Brzeziński.) Finally the inhomogeneous quantum groups obtained by bosonisation of braided groups are used to illustrate the above theories. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0865.00041].
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- Quantum and braided group Riemannian geometry
- Coalgebra bundles
- The gauge group of a noncommutative principal bundle and twist deformations
- Gauge groups and bialgebroids
- Covering and gluing of algebras, and quantum principal bundles
- Some problems of quantum group gauge field theory
- DIAGRAMMATICS OF BRAIDED GROUP GAUGE THEORY
- Hopf algebra gauge theory on a ribbon graph
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