Braided Matrix Structure of the Sklyanin Algebra and of the Quantum Lorentz Group

Abstract

Braided groups and braided matrices are novel algebraic structures living in braided or quasitensor categories. As such they are a generalization of super-groups and super-matrices to the case of braid statistics. Here we construct braided group versions of the standard quantum groups $U_q(g)$. They have the same FRT generators $l^{\pm }$ but a matrix braided-coproduct $\undΔL=L\und\tens L$ where $L=l^{+}S{l}^{-}$, and are self-dual. As an application, the degenerate Sklyanin algebra is shown to be isomorphic to the braided matrices $B{M}_q(2)$; it is a braided-commutative bialgebra in a braided category. As a second application, we show that the quantum double $D(\usl)$ (also known as the `quantum Lorentz group') is the semidirect product as an algebra of two copies of $\usl$, and also a semidirect product as a coalgebra if we use braid statistics. We find various results of this type for the doubles of general quantum groups and their semi-classical limits as doubles of the Lie algebras of Poisson Lie groups.

45 pages. Revised (= much expanded introduction)

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