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Free Braided Differential Calculus, Braided Binomial Theorem and the Braided Exponential Map

arXiv:hep-th/9302076 · doi:10.1063/1.530326

Abstract

Braided differential operators $\del^i$ are obtained by differentiating the addition law on the braided covector spaces introduced previously (such as the braided addition law on the quantum plane). These are affiliated to a Yang-Baxter matrix . The quantum eigenfunctions $\exp_R(\vecx|\vecv)$ of the $\del^i$ (braided-plane waves) are introduced in the free case where the position components are totally non-commuting. We prove a braided -binomial theorem and a braided-Taylors theorem $\exp_R(\veca|\del)f(\vecx)=f(\veca+\vecx)$. These various results precisely generalise to a generic -matrix (and hence to -dimensions) the well-known properties of the usual 1-dimensional -differential and -exponential. As a related application, we show that the q-Heisenberg algebra is a braided semidirect product $\C[x]\cocross \C[p]$ of the braided line acting on itself (a braided Weyl algebra). Similarly for its generalization to an arbitrary -matrix.

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