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Examples of quantum braided groups

Hlavatý, Ladislav

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Summary: The author gives the defining relations of a new type of bialgebras that generalize both the quantum groups and braided groups as well as the quantum supergroups. The relations of the algebras are determined by a pair of matrices ( R , Z ) that solve a system of Yang-Baxter-type equations. The matrix coproduct and counit are of standard matrix form, however, the multiplication in the tensor product of the algebra is defined by virtue of the braiding map given by the matrix Z . Besides...

When is a quantum space not a group?

Piotr Mikołaj Sołtan (2010)

Banach Center Publications

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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 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 C*-algebras describing the considered quantum spaces as well as...

Problems in the theory of quantum groups

Shuzhou Wang (1997)

Banach Center Publications

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This is a collection of open problems in the theory of quantum groups. Emphasis is given to problems in the analytic aspects of the subject.

Anyonic Groups

Shahn Majid (1992)

Recherche Coopérative sur Programme n°25

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Unified quantum invariants and their refinements for homology 3-spheres with 2-torsion

Anna Beliakova, Christian Blanchet, Thang T. Q. Lê (2008)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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For every rational homology 3-sphere with H₁(M,ℤ) = (ℤ/2ℤ)ⁿ we construct a unified invariant (which takes values in a certain cyclotomic completion of a polynomial ring) such that the evaluation of this invariant at any odd root of unity provides the SO(3) Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant at this root, and at any even root of unity the SU(2) quantum invariant. Moreover, this unified invariant splits into a sum of the refined unified invariants dominating spin and cohomological refinements...

Knot theory with the Lorentz group

João Faria Martins (2005)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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We analyse perturbative expansions of the invariants defined from unitary representations of the Quantum Lorentz Group in two different ways, namely using the Kontsevich Integral and weight systems, and the R-matrix in the Quantum Lorentz Group defined by Buffenoir and Roche. The two formulations are proved to be equivalent; and they both yield ℂ[[h]]h-valued knot invariants related with the Melvin-Morton expansion of the Coloured Jones Polynomial.

Contractible quantum Arens-Michael algebras

Nina V. Volosova (2010)

Banach Center Publications

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We consider quantum analogues of locally convex spaces in terms of the non-coordinate approach. We introduce the notions of a quantum Arens-Michael algebra and a quantum polynormed module, and also quantum versions of projectivity and contractibility. We prove that a quantum Arens-Michael algebra is contractible if and only if it is completely isomorphic to a Cartesian product of full matrix C*-algebras. Similar results in the framework of traditional (non-quantum) approach are established,...

An introduction to quantum annealing

Diego de Falco, Dario Tamascelli (2011)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications

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Quantum annealing, or quantum stochastic optimization, is a classical randomized algorithm which provides good heuristics for the solution of hard optimization problems. The algorithm, suggested by the behaviour of quantum systems, is an example of proficuous cross contamination between classical and quantum computer science. In this survey paper we illustrate how hard combinatorial problems are tackled by quantum computation and present some examples of the heuristics provided by quantum...