A note on modules over the quantum torus

MaRDI QIDQ6257724zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ashish Gupta

Publication date 30 December 2014

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ring-theoretic aspects of quantum groups (16T20) Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Quantum groups (quantized function algebras) and their representations (20G42)

Abstract: The $n$-dimensional quantum torus $Lambda$ is defined to be the $F$-algebra generated by variables $y_1,cdots,y_n$ with the relations $y_i{y}_j=q_{ij}{y}_j{y}_i$ where $q_{ij}$ are suitable scalars from the base field. This algebra is also the twisted group algebra of the free abelian group $A$ on $n$ generators. Each subgroup of corresponds to a sub-algebra of the quanutm torus. $A$ may contain non-trivial subgroups $B$ so that the corresponding sub-algebra is commutative. In this paper we show that whenever the quantum torus $Lambda$ has center $F$, a $Lambda$ module $M$ that is finitely generated over such a commutative sub-algebra $U$ is necessarily torsion-free over $U$ and has finite length. We also show that $M$ has finite length. We also apply tbis result to modules over infinite nilpotent groups of class 2.

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