The Gauge Group of a Noncommutative Principal Bundle and Twist Deformations

DOI10.4171/JNCG/363arXiv1806.01841MaRDI QIDQ6302595FDOQ6302595

Paolo Aschieri, Chiara Pagani, Giovanni Landi

Publication date: 5 June 2018

Abstract: We study noncommutative principal bundles (Hopf-Galois extensions) in the context of coquasitriangular Hopf algebras and their monoidal category of comodule algebras. When the total space is quasi-commutative, and thus the base space subalgebra is central, we define the gauge group as the group of vertical automorphisms or equivalently as the group of equivariant algebra maps. We study Drinfeld twist (2-cocycle) deformations of Hopf-Galois extensions and show that the gauge group of the twisted extension is isomorphic to the gauge group of the initial extension. In particular, noncommutative principal bundles arising via twist deformation of commutative principal bundles have classical gauge group. We illustrate the theory with a few examples.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry (14D15) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Deformation quantization, star products (53D55) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Hopf algebras and their applications (16T05) Equivariant fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R91) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60)

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