Metric compatibility and Levi-Civita Connections on Quantum Groups
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Abstract: Arbitrary right connections on bicovariant bimodules of a quantum group (Hopf algebra) are shown to canonically extend to tensor products of bicovariant bimodules. In particular, a connection on a bicovariant bimodule of one forms or the dual one of vector fields extends to the braided symmetric tensor product of forms or vector fields. This allows to define a metric compatibility condition between an arbitrary connection and an arbitrary braided symmetric metric associated with a bicovariant differential calculus on a quantum group. The metric compatibility condition and the torsion free condition are solved for metrics conformal to central and equivariant metrics provided the braiding given by the differential calculus is diagonalizable (and an associated map invertible). Thus, existence and uniqueness of the Levi-Civita connection on a quantum group for this class of metrics that are neither central nor equivariant is proven.
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