Bicross-product structure of affine quantum groups

DOI10.1023/A:1007318108923MaRDI QIDQ675841zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shahn Majid

Publication date 9 November 1997

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/q-alg/9512007

zbMATH Keywords

quantum groupsbicross-productscentral extensions of quantum loop groupsquantum cocycle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67)

Abstract: We show that the affine quantum group $U_q(hats{l}_2)$ is isomorphic to a bicrossproduct central extension $CZ{}_{c}hicross{U}_q(Ls{l}_2)$ of the quantum loop group $U_q(Ls{l}_2)$ by a quantum cocycle $chi$, which we construct. We prove the same result for $U_q(hatg)$ in R-matrix form.

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