Embeddable quantum homogeneous spaces

A method of constructing covariant differential calculi on a quantum homogeneous space is devised. The function algebra χ of the quantum homogeneous space is assumed to be a left coideal of a coquasitriangular Hopf algebra ℋ and to contain the coefficients of any matrix over ℋ which is the two-sided inverse of one with entries in χ. The method is based on partial derivatives. For the quantum sphere of Podleś and the quantizations of symmetric spaces due to Noumi, Dijkhuizen and Sugitani, the construction produces the subcalculi of the standard bicovariant calculus on the quantum group.

Examples of non-compact quantum group actions

On square roots of the Haar state on compact quantum groups

We define a category containing the discrete quantum groups (and hence the discrete groups and the duals of compact groups) and the compact quantum groups (and hence the compact groups and the duals of discrete groups). The dual of an object can be defined within the same category and we have a biduality theorem. This theory extends the duality between compact quantum groups and discrete quantum groups (and hence the one between compact abelian groups and discrete abelian groups). The objects in our category are multiplier Hopf algebras, with invertible antipode, admitting invariant functionals (integrals), satisfying some extra condition (to take care of the non-abelianness of the underlying algebras). If we start with a multiplier Hopf ∗-algebra with positive invariant functionals, then also the dual is a multiplier Hopf ∗-algebra with positive invariant functionals. This makes it possible to formulate this duality also within the framework of C∗-algebras.

Noncommutative Kähler structures on quantum homogeneous spaces

This is a transcript of a series of eight lectures, 90 min each, held at IMSc Chennai, India from 5–24 January 2015. We give basic definitions, properties and examples of compact quantum groups and compact matrix quantum groups such as the existence of a Haar state, the representation theory and Woronowicz’s quantum version of the Tannaka–Krein theorem. Building on this, we define Banica–Speicher quantum groups (also called easy quantum groups), a class of compact matrix quantum groups determined by the combinatorics of set partitions. We sketch the classification of Banica–Speicher quantum groups and we list some applications. We review the state-of-the-art regarding Banica–Speicher quantum groups and we list some open problems.

We consider compact matrix quantum groups whose $N$-dimensional fundamental representation decomposes into an $(N-1)$-dimensional and a one-dimensional subrepresentation. Even if we know that the compact matrix quantum group associated to this $(N-1)$-dimensional subrepresentation is isomorphic to the given $N$-dimensional one, it is a priori not clear how the intertwiner spaces transform under this isomorphism. In the context of so-called easy and non-easy quantum groups, we are able to define a transformation of linear combinations of partitions and we explicitly describe the transformation of intertwiner spaces. As a side effect, this enables us to produce many new examples of non-easy quantum groups being isomorphic to easy quantum groups as compact quantum groups but not as compact matrix quantum groups.

In this paper we study the Cauchy problem for a class of semi-linear parabolic type equations with weak data in the homogeneous spaces. We give a method which can be used to construct local mild solutions of the abstract Cauchy problem inĊσ,s,p andLq([0, T);Hs,p) by introducing the concept of both admissible quintuplet and compatible space and establishing time-space estimates for solutions to the linear parabolic type equations. For the small data, we prove that these results can be extended globally in time. We also study the regularity of the solution to the abstract Cauchy problem for nonlinear parabolic type equations in Ċσ,s,p. As an application, we obtain the same result for Navier-Stokes equations with weak initial data in homogeneous Sobolev spaces.

Let G / H be a homogeneous space of a compact simple classical Lie group G. Assume that the maximal torus T H of H is conjugate to a torus T β whose Lie algebra t β is the kernel of the maximal root β of the root system of the complexified Lie algebra g c . We prove that such homogeneous space is formal. As an application, we give a short direct proof of the formality property of compact homogeneous 3-Sasakian spaces of classical type. This is a complement to the work of Fernández, Muñoz, and Sanchez which contains a full analysis of the formality property of S O ( 3 ) -bundles over the Wolf spaces and the proof of the formality property of homogeneous 3-Sasakian manifolds as a corollary.

Quantum Groups and Integrable Models

Symmetries of Lévy processes on compact quantum groups, their Markov semigroups and potential theory

In this paper the structure of all open semigroups in any compact topological group is determined. We can then extend this result to a classification of the angular semigroups of any abelian topological group H which contains a compact open subgroup K. Coupling this with the results for Euclidean n-space, we obtain an essentially complete description of the angular semigroups of an arbitrary locally compact group. For compact groups, the result is remarkably simple.

In this paper, we investigate the co-amenability of compact quantum groups. Combining with some properties of regular C*-norms on algebraic compact quantum groups, we show that the quantum double of co-amenable compact quantum groups is unique. Based on this, this paper proves that co-amenability is preserved under formulation of the quantum double construction of compact quantum groups, which exhibits a type of nice symmetry between the co-amenability of quantum groups and the amenability of groups.

This paper is a survey of results (partly obtained by the authors) on homogeneous spaces of Lie groups \(G\) with a compact stabilizer subgroup \(H\), on which every \(G\)-invariant distribution is integrable. It is proved that the condition of integrability is necessary and sufficient for every invariant inner metric to be (holonomic) Finsler on such a space. As a corollary of the obtained results, we assert that the class of homogeneous spaces with invariant non-holonomic Riemannian metrics (in other terms, sub-Riemannian or Carnot–Caratheodory metrics), which were actively studied last 3 decades after Gromov’s work, is rather broad. On the other hand, the class of homogeneous spaces with integrable invariant distributions includes Cartan’s symmetric spaces as well as isotropy irreducible, in particular, strictly isotropy irreducible, homogeneous spaces, which have been classified in simply connected case in the papers by Wang and Ziller (respectively, by Manturov, Wolf and Kramer). Special attention is paid to the case, when the Lie groups \(G\) and \(H\) are connected. Then the integrability condition of the invariant distributions is equivalent to a purely algebraic condition, that for the Lie algebra \(h\) of the subgroup \(H\), any \(ad(h)\)-invariant vector subspace in the Lie algebra \(g\) of the Lie group \(G\) is a Lie subalgebra; such Lie subalgebra \(h\subset g\) is called a strong subalgebra. The first author proved that a simply connected and compact space \(G/H\) with this condition is isomorphic to a direct product of strictly isotropy irreducible homogeneous spaces. In line with this, the second author recently found several non-compact simply connected homogeneous spaces with this condition, which are not isomorphic to such direct products. These results are naturally related to the structure questions of a class of general homogeneous locally compact spaces with an inner metric. This class is exactly the closure in the Gromov–Hausdorff sense of the class of homogeneous manifolds with an inner metric. Any such manifold is isometric to some homogeneous manifold \(G/H\) with \(G\)-invariant (may be, non-holonomic) Finsler metric. The authors give fairly detailed survey of the existing methods of the search of geodesics, i.e., locally shortest arcs, on such manifolds (particularly, with invariant non-holonomic Riemannian metrics), non-holonomic metric geometry and its relations with the geometric group theory, \(CR\)-manifolds, thermodynamics, etc. Some unsolved problems are suggested.

Convolution semigroups of states on a quantum group form the natural noncommutative analogue of convolution semigroups of probability measures on a locally compact group. Here we initiate a theory of weakly continuous convolution semigroups of functionals on a C*-bialgebra, the noncommutative counterpart of a locally compact semigroup. On locally compact quantum groups we obtain a bijective correspondence between such convolution semigroups and a class of C 0-semigroups of maps which we characterise. On C*-bialgebras of discrete type we show that all weakly continuous convolution semigroups of states are automatically norm-continuous. As an application we deduce a known characterisation of continuous conditionally positive-definite Hermitian functions on a compact group.