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Double-bosonization of braided groups and the construction of Uq(g)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1999

S. MAJID
S. MAJID
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9EW, UK
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Abstract

We introduce a quasitriangular Hopf algebra or ‘quantum group’ U(B), the double-bosonization, associated to every braided group B in the category of H-modules over a quasitriangular Hopf algebra H, such that B appears as the ‘positive root space’, H as the ‘Cartan subalgebra’ and the dual braided group B* as the ‘negative root space’ of U(B). The choice B=Uq(n+) recovers Lusztig's construction of Uq(g); other choices give more novel quantum groups. As an application, our construction provides a canonical way of building up quantum groups from smaller ones by repeatedly extending their positive and negative root spaces by linear braided groups; we explicitly construct Uq(sl3) from Uq(sl2) by this method, extending it by the quantum-braided plane. We provide a fundamental representation of U(B) in B. A projection from the quantum double, a theory of double biproducts and a Tannaka–Krein reconstruction point of view are also provided.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 125 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 151 - 192
Copyright
Cambridge Philosophical Society 1999

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Footnotes

This work was written during the calendar years 1995 and 1996, while the author was a visiting scholar at the Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.