Quantum differential forms

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Abstract: Formalism of differential forms is developed for a variety of Quantum and noncommutative situations.


The main purpose of the present paper is to develop a formalism of quantum differential forms. The paper consists of 12 paragraphs (Sections). After Introduction (Sec. 1) in Section 2 and 3 differential forms, Lie derivatives, and the Poincaré lemma in general noncommutative polynomial rings are set up. Section 4 generalizes all that to the \(Z_2\)-graded case. Section 6 establishes a quantum version of what is called Clebsch representation. The device of quantum Clebsch representations allows one to derive plausible rules for the generators and relations of a differential form attached to a finite-dimensional Lie algebra \(G\) with its fixed representation on a vector space \(V\). This is the subject of Section 7. In contrast to the familiar complex of differential forms associated to \(G\) and \(V\), the author gets a variety of quantum-inspired ghosts. For very special Lie algebras these ghosts can be avoided, as is done in Sections 8 and 9 for affine Lie algebra \(aff(1)\) and \(gl(V)\). For the Lie algebra \(so(V)\), the number of ghosts can be reduced in Section 10. In Sections 11 and 12 the author considers the quantum spaces of \(Q\)-type, where the commutation relations between the variables \(x_i\) are of the form \(x_ix_j=Q_{ij}x_jx_i\) \((\forall i,j)\) with some invertible constants \(Q_{ij}\). These are typical relations of quantum vector spaces in the theory of quantum groups. In Section 12 the variables \(x_i\) depend also on a discrete lattice index. This prepares the grounds for the quantum variational calculus.











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