C^*-algebraic quantum groups arising from algebraic quantum groups

We give a survey of techniques from quantum group theory which can be used to show that some quantum spaces (objects of the category dual to the category of $\mathrm{C}^*$-algebras) do not admit any quantum group structure. We also provide a number of examples which include some very well known quantum spaces. Our tools include several purely quantum group theoretical results as well as study of existence of characters and traces on $\mathrm{C}^*$-algebras describing the cons...

In the first part of this paper, we implement the multiplier algebra of the dual of an algebraic quantum group (A,Delta) as a space of linear functionals on A. In the second part, we construct the universal corepresentation of (A,Delta) and use it to prove a bijective correspondence between corepresentations of (A,Delta) and homomorphisms on the dual.

We show that the C*-algebra of a quantum sphere $C(S_{q}^{2n+1})$ can be realized as a groupoid C*-algebra of a groupoid which is explicitly identified and is independent of the parameter $q$.

We discuss just infiniteness of C*-algebras associated to discrete quantum groups and relate it to the C*-uniqueness of the quantum groups in question, i.e. to the uniqueness of a C*-completion of the underlying Hopf *-algebra. It is shown that duals of q-deformations of simply connected semisimple compact Lie groups are never C*-unique. On the other hand we present an example of a discrete quantum group which is not locally finite and yet is C*-unique.

A very elementary introduction to quantum algebras is presented and a few examples of their physical applications are mentioned.

We study coactions of finite quantum groupoids on unital $C^*$-algebras and obtain the Tannaka-Krein reconstruction theorem for them.

We show how the C*-algebras of quantum complex projective spaces (standard or nonstandard) are related to groupoids.

The Ahtekar-Isham C*-algebra known from Loop Quantum Gravity is the algebra of continuous functions on the space of (generalized) connections with a compact structure Lie group. The algebra can be constructed by some inductive techniques from the C*-algebra of continuous functions on the group and a family of graphs embedded in the manifold underlying the connections. We generalize the latter construction replacing the commutative C*-algebra of continuous functions on the gro...

We show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between compact quantum subgroups of a co-amenable locally compact quantum group $\mathbb{G}$ and certain left invariant C*-subalgebras of $C_0(\mathbb{G})$. We also prove that every compact quantum subgroup of a co-amenable quantum group is co-amenable. Moreover, there is a one-to-one correspondence between open subgroups of an amenable locally compact group $G$ and non-zero, invariant C*-subalgebras of the group C*-algebra $...

In this paper we give a geometric construction of the quantum group Ut(G) using Nakajima categories, which were developed in [29]. Our methods allow us to establish a direct connection between the algebraic realization of the quantum group as Hall algebra by Bridgeland [1] and its geometric counterpart by Qin [24].