Hidden Symmetry of the Differential Calculus on the Quantum Matrix Space

We consider the algebra of N x N matrices as a reduced quantum plane on which a finite-dimensional quantum group H acts. This quantum group is a quotient of U_q(sl(2,C)), q being an N-th root of unity. Most of the time we shall take N=3; in that case \dim(H) = 27. We recall the properties of this action and introduce a differential calculus for this algebra: it is a quotient of the Wess-Zumino complex. The quantum group H also acts on the corresponding differential algebra an...

In this work, we consider the algebra $M_{N}(C)$ of $N\times N$ matrices as a cyclic quantum plane. We also analyze the coaction of the quantum group ${\cal F}$ and the action of its dual quantum algebra ${\cal H}$ on it. Then, we study the decomposition of $M_{N}(C)$ in terms of the quantum algebra representations. Finally, we develop the differential algebra of the cyclic group $Z_{N}$ with $d^{N}=0$, and treat the particular case N=3.

A brief review of the construction and classifiaction of the bicovariant differential calculi on quantum groups is given.

We give a complete classification of bicovariant first order differential calculi on the quantum enveloping algebra U_q(b+) which we view as the quantum function algebra C_q(B+). Here, b+ is the Borel subalgebra of sl_2. We do the same in the classical limit q->1 and obtain a one-to-one correspondence in the finite dimensional case. It turns out that the classification is essentially given by finite subsets of the positive integers. We proceed to investigate the classical lim...

A review of the multiparametric linear quantum group GL_qr(N), its real forms, its dual algebra U(gl_qr(N)) and its bicovariant differential calculus is given in the first part of the paper. We then construct the (multiparametric) linear inhomogeneous quantum group IGL_qr(N) as a projection from GL_qr(N+1), or equivalently, as a quotient of GL_qr(N+1) with respect to a suitable Hopf algebra ideal. A bicovariant differential calculus on IGL_qr(N) is explicitly obtained as ...

For transcendental values of q the quantum tangent spaces of all left-covariant first order differential calculi of dimension less than four on the quantum group $\SLq 2$ are given. All such differential calculi $\Gamma $ are determined and investigated for which the left-invariant differential one-forms $\omega (u^1_2)$, $\omega (u^2_1)$ and $\omega (u^1_1-u^2_2)$ generate $\Gamma $ as a bimodule and the universal higher order differential calculus has the same dimension as ...

We study $N^2-1$ dimensional left-covariant differential calculi on the quantum group $SL_q(N)$ for which the generators of the quantum Lie algebras annihilate the quantum trace. In this way we obtain one distinguished calculus on $SL_q(2)$ (which corresponds to Woronowicz' 3D-calculus on $SU_q(2)$) and two distinguished calculi on $SL_q(3)$ such that the higher order calculi give the ordinary differential calculus on $SL(2)$ and $SL(3)$, respectively, in the limit $q\rightar...

We construct a bicovariant differential calculus on the quantum group $GL_q(3)$, and discuss its restriction to $[SU(3) \otimes U(1)]_q$. The $q$-algebra of Lie derivatives is found, as well as the Cartan-Maurer equations. All the quantities characterizing the non-commutative geometry of $GL_q(3)$ are given explicitly.

An introduction to quantum groups and non-commutative differential calculus (Lecture at the III Workshop on Differential Geometry, Granada, September 1994)

We classify all 4-dimensional first order bicovariant calculi on the Jordanian quantum group GL_{h,g}(2) and all 3-dimensional first order bicovariant calculi on the Jordanian quantum group SL_{h}(2). In both cases we assume that the bicovariant bimodules are generated as left modules by the differentials of the quantum group generators. It is found that there are 3 1-parameter families of 4-dimensional bicovariant first order calculi on GL_{h,g}(2) and that there is a single...