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Two quantum Hopf structures for the Schrödinger algebra as well as their corresponding differential-difference realizations are presented. For each case a (space or time) discretization of the Schrödinger equation is deduced and the quantum Schrödinger generators are shown to be symmetry operators.
A non-standard quantum deformation of the Poincaré algebra is presented in a null-plane framework for 1+1, 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions. Their corresponding universal $R$-matrices are obtained in a factorized form by choosing suitable bases related to the $T$-matrix formalism.
A non-linear map is applied onto the (non-standard) null-plane deformation of (3+1) Poincaré algebra giving rise to a simpler form of this triangular quantization. A universal $R$-matrix for the null plane quantum algebra is then obtained from a universal $T$-matrix corresponding to a Hopf subalgebra. Finally, the associated Poincaré Poisson--Lie group is quantized by using the FRT approach.
The general solution of the graded contraction equations for a $\zz_2^{\otimes N}$ grading of the real compact simple Lie algebra $so(N+1)$ is presented in an explicit way. It turns out to depend on $2^N-1$ independent real parameters. The structure of the general graded contractions is displayed for the low dimensional cases, and kinematical algebras are shown to appear straightforwardly. The geometrical (or physical) meaning of the contraction parameters as curvatures is also analysed; in particular, for kinematical algebras these curvatures are directly linked to geometrical properties of possible homogeneous space-times.
A new quantum deformation, which we call null-plane, of the (3+1) Poincaré algebra is obtained. The algebraic properties of the classical null-plane description are generalized to this quantum deformation. In particular, the classical isotopy subalgebra of the null-plane is deformed into a Hopf subalgebra, and deformed spin operators having classical commutation rules can be defined. Quantum Hamiltonian, mass and position operators are studied, and the null-plane evolution is expressed in terms of a deformed Schrödinger equation.
A universal quasitriangular $R$--matrix for the non-standard quantum (1+1) Poincaré algebra $U_ziso(1,1)$ is deduced by imposing analyticity in the deformation parameter $z$. A family $g_μ$ of ``quantum graded contractions" of the algebra $U_ziso(1,1)\oplus U_{-z}iso(1,1)$ is obtained; this set of quantum algebras contains as Hopf subalgebras with two primitive translations quantum analogues of the two dimensional Euclidean, Poincaré and Galilei algebras enlarged with dilations. Universal $R$--matrices for these quantum Weyl algebras and their associated quantum groups are constructed.
The Hopf algebra dual form for the non--standard uniparametric deformation of the (1+1) Poincaré algebra $iso(1,1)$ is deduced. In this framework, the quantum coordinates that generate $Fun_w(ISO(1,1))$ define an infinite dimensional Lie algebra. A change in the basis of the dual form is obtained in order to compare this deformation to the standard one. Finally, a non--standard quantum Heisenberg group acting on a quantum Galilean plane is obtained.
Lie bialgebra contractions are introduced and classified. A non-degenerate coboundary bialgebra structure is implemented into all pseudo-orthogonal algebras $so(p,q)$ starting from the one corresponding to $so(N+1)$. It allows to introduce a set of Lie bialgebra contractions which leads to Lie bialgebras of quasi-orthogonal algebras. This construction is explicitly given for the cases $N=2,3,4$. All Lie bialgebra contractions studied in this paper define Hopf algebra contractions for the Drinfel'd-Jimbo deformations $U_z so(p,q)$. They are explicitly used to generate new non-semisimple quantum algebras as it is the case for the Euclidean, Poincaré and Galilean algebras.
An embedding method to get $q$-deformations for the non--semisimple algebras generating the motion groups of $N$--dimensional flat spaces is presented. This method gives a global and simultaneous scheme of $q$-deformation for all $iso(p,q)$ algebras and for those ones obtained from them by some Inönü--Wigner contractions, such as the $N$--dimensional Euclidean, Poincaré and Galilei algebras.
A Poisson--Hopf algebra of smooth functions on the (1+1) Cayley--Klein groups is constructed by using a classical $r$--matrix which is invariant under contraction. The quantization of this algebra for the Euclidean, Galilei and Poincaré cases is developed, and their duals are also computed. Contractions on these quantum groups are studied.
A universal R--matrix for the quantum Heisenberg algebra h(1)q is presented. Despite of the non--quasitriangularity of this Hopf algebra, the quantum group induced from it coincides with the quasitriangular deformation already known.
The N-dimensional Cayley-Klein scheme allows the simultaneous description of $3^N$ geometries (symmetric orthogonal homogeneous spaces) by means of a set of Lie algebras depending on $N$ real parameters. We present here a quantum deformation of the Lie algebras generating the groups of motion of the two and three dimensional Cayley-Klein geometries. This deformation (Hopf algebra structure) is presented in a compact form by using a formalism developed for the case of (quasi) free Lie algebras. Their quasitriangularity (i.e., the most usual way to study the associativity of their dual objects, the quantum groups) is also discussed.
We study $\Bbb Z_2^{\otimes N}$ graded contractions of the real compact simple Lie algebra $so(N+1)$, and we identify within them the Cayley-Klein algebras as a naturally distinguished subset.
A global model of $q$-deformation for the quasi--orthogonal Lie algebras generating the groups of motions of the four--dimensional affine Cayley--Klein geometries is obtained starting from the three dimensional deformations. It is shown how the main algebraic classical properties of the CK systems can be implemented in the quantum case. Quantum deformed versions of either the space--time or space symmetry algebras (Poincaré (3+1), Galilei (3+1), 4D Euclidean as well as others) appear in this context as particular cases and several $q$-deformations for them are directly obtained.