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Piotr M. Hajac

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arXiv2018

Pullbacks and nontriviality of associated noncommutative vector bundles

Our main theorem is that the pullback of an associated noncommutative vector bundle induced by an equivariant map of quantum principal bundles is a noncommutative vector bundle associated via the same finite-dimensional representation of the structural quantum group. On the level of $K_{0}$-groups, we realize the induced map by the pullback of explicit matrix idempotents. We also show how to extend our result to the case when the quantum-group representation is infinite dimensional, and then apply it to the Ehresmann-Schauenburg quantum groupoid. Finally, using noncommutative Milnor's join construction, we define quantum quaternionic projective spaces together with noncommutative tautological quaternionic line bundles and their duals. As a key application of the main theorem, we show that these bundles are stably non-trivial as noncommutative complex vector bundles.

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arXiv2017

The K-theory of twisted multipullback quantum odd spheres and complex projective spaces

We find multipullback quantum odd-dimensional spheres equipped with natural $U(1)$-actions that yield the multipullback quantum complex projective spaces constructed from Toeplitz cubes as noncommutative quotients. We prove that the noncommutative line bundles associated to multipullback quantum odd spheres are pairwise stably non-isomorphic, and that the $K$-groups of multipullback quantum complex projective spaces and odd spheres coincide with their classical counterparts. We show that these $K$-groups remain the same for more general twisted versions of our quantum odd spheres and complex projective spaces.

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arXiv2017

Noncommutative Borsuk-Ulam-type conjectures revisited

Let $H$ be the C*-algebra of a non-trivial compact quantum group acting freely on a unital C*-algebra $A$. It was recently conjectured that there does not exist an equivariant $*$-homomorphism from $A$ (type-I case) or $H$ (type-II case) to the equivariant noncommutative join C*-algebra $A\circledast^δH$. When $A$ is the C*-algebra of functions on a sphere, and $H$ is the C*-algebra of functions on ${\mathbb Z}/2{\mathbb Z}$ acting antipodally on the sphere, then the conjecture of type I becomes the celebrated Borsuk-Ulam theorem. Following recent work of Passer, we prove the conjecture of type I for compact quantum groups admitting a non-trivial torsion character. Next, we prove that, if a compact quantum group admits a representation whose \mbox{$K_1$-class} is non-trivial and $A$ admits a character, then a stronger version of the type-II conjecture holds: the finitely generated projective module associated with $A\circledast^δH$ via this representation is not stably free. In particular, we apply this result to the $q$-deformations of compact connected semisimple Lie groups and to the reduced group C*-algebras of free groups on $n>1$ generators.

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arXiv2017

The cyclic-homology Chern-Weil homomorphism for principal coactions

We view the space of cotraces in the structural coalgebra of a principal coaction as a noncommutative counterpart of the classical Cartan model. Then we define the cyclic-homology Chern-Weil homomorphism by extending the Chern-Galois character from the characters of finite-dimensional comodules to arbitrary cotraces. To reduce the cyclic-homology Chern-Weil homomorphism to a tautological natural transformation, we replace the unital coaction-invariant subalgebra by its certain natural H-unital nilpotent extension (row extension), and prove that their cyclic-homology groups are isomorphic. In the proof, we use a chain homotopy invariance of complexes computing Hochschild, and hence cyclic homology, for arbitrary row extensions. In the context of the cyclic-homology Chern-Weil homomorphism, a row extension is provided by the Ehresmann-Schauenburg quantum groupoid with a nonstandard multiplication.

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arXiv2015

Noncommutative bundles over the multi-pullback quantum complex projective plane

We equip the multi-pullback $C^*$-algebra $C(S^5_H)$ of a noncommutative-deformation of the 5-sphere with a free $U(1)$-action, and show that its fixed-point subalgebra is isomorphic with the $C^*$-algebra of the multi-pullback quantum complex projective plane. Our main result is the stable non-triviality of the dual tautological line bundle associated to the action. We prove it by combining Chern-Galois theory with the Milnor connecting homomorphism in $K$-theory. Using the Mayer-Vietoris six-term exact sequences and the functoriality of the Künneth formula, we also compute the $K$-groups of $C(S^5_H)$.

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arXiv2015

Equivariant Join and Fusion of Noncommutative Algebras

We translate the concept of the join of topological spaces to the language of $C^*$-algebras, replace the $C^*$-algebra of functions on the interval $[0,1]$ with evaluation maps at $0$ and $1$ by a unital $C^*$-algebra $C$ with appropriate two surjections, and introduce the notion of the fusion of unital $C^*$-algebras. An appropriate modification of this construction yields the fusion comodule algebra of a comodule algebra $P$ with the coacting Hopf algebra $H$. We prove that, if the comodule algebra $P$ is principal, then so is the fusion comodule algebra. When $C=C([0,1])$ and the two surjections are evaluation maps at $0$ and $1$, this result is a noncommutative-algebraic incarnation of the fact that, for a compact Hausdorff principal $G$-bundle $X$, the diagonal action of $G$ on the join $X*G$ is free.

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arXiv2015

Free actions of compact quantum group on unital C*-algebras

Let F be a field, G a finite group, and Map(G,F) the Hopf algebra of all set-theoretic maps G->F. If E is a finite field extension of F and G is its Galois group, the extension is Galois if and only if the canonical map resulting from viewing E as a Map(G,F)-comodule is an isomorphism. Similarly, a finite covering space is regular if and only if the analogous canonical map is an isomorphism. In this paper we extend this point of view to actions of compact quantum groups on unital C*-algebras. We prove that such an action is free if and only if the canonical map (obtained using the underlying Hopf algebra of the compact quantum group) is an isomorphism. In particular, we are able to express the freeness of a compact Hausdorff topological group action on a compact Hausdorff topological space in algebraic terms.

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arXiv2015

Noncommutative Borsuk-Ulam-type conjectures

Within the framework of free actions of compact quantum groups on unital C*-algebras, we propose two conjectures. The first one states that, if $H$ is the C*-algebra of a compact quantum group coacting freely on a unital C*-algebra $A$, then there is no equivariant $*$-homomorphism from $A$ to the join C*-algebra $A*H$. For $A$ being the C*-algebra of continuous functions on a sphere with the antipodal coaction of the C*-algebra of funtions on $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$, we recover the celebrated Borsuk-Ulam theorem. The second conjecture states that there is no equivariant $*$-homomorphism from $H$ to the join C*-algebra $A*H$. We show how to prove the conjecture in the special case $A=C(SU_q(2))=H$, which is tantamount to showing the non-trivializability of Pflaum's quantum instanton fibration built from $SU_q(2)$.

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arXiv2014

Braided join comodule algebras of Galois objects

We construct the join of noncommutative Galois objects (quantum torsors) over a Hopf algebra H. To ensure that the join algebra enjoys the natural (diagonal) coaction of H, we braid the tensor product of the Galois objects. Then we show that this coaction is principal. Our examples are built from the noncommutative torus with the natural free action of the classical torus, and arbitrary anti-Drinfeld doubles of finite-dimensional Hopf algebras. The former yields a noncommutative deformation of a non-trivial torus bundle, and the latter a finite quantum covering.

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arXiv2014

Local Proof of Algebraic Characterization of Free Actions

Let $G$ be a compact Hausdorff topological group acting on a compact Hausdorff topological space $X$. Within the $C^{*}$-algebra $C(X)$ of all continuous complex-valued functions on $X$, there is the Peter-Weyl algebra $\mathcal{P}_G(X)$ which is the (purely algebraic) direct sum of the isotypical components for the action of $G$ on $C(X)$. We prove that the action of $G$ on $X$ is free if and only if the canonical map $\mathcal{P}_G(X)\otimes_{C(X/G)}\mathcal{P}_G(X)\to \mathcal{P}_G(X)\otimes\mathcal{O}(G)$ is bijective. Here both tensor products are purely algebraic, and $\mathcal{O}(G)$ denotes the Hopf algebra of "polynomial" functions on $G$.

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arXiv2014

Nontrivial Deformation of a Trivial Bundle

The ${\rm SU}(2)$-prolongation of the Hopf fibration $S^3\to S^2$ is a trivializable principal ${\rm SU}(2)$-bundle. We present a noncommutative deformation of this bundle to a quantum principal ${\rm SU}_q(2)$-bundle that is not trivializable. On the other hand, we show that the ${\rm SU}_q(2)$-bundle is piecewise trivializable with respect to the closed covering of $S^2$ by two hemispheres intersecting at the equator.

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arXiv2013

The Pullbacks of Principal Coactions

We prove that the class of principal coactions is closed under one-surjective pullbacks in an appropriate category of algebras equipped with left and right coactions. This allows us to handle cases of C*-algebras lacking two different non-trivial ideals. It also allows us to go beyond the category of comodule algebras. As an example of the former, we carry out an index computation for noncommutative line bundles over the standard Podles sphere using the Mayer-Vietoris type arguments afforded by a one-surjective pullback presentation of the C*-algebra of this quantum sphere. To instantiate the latter, we define a family of coalgebraic noncommutative deformations of the U(1)-principal bundle S^7 --> CP^3.

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arXiv2012

The cocycle condition for multi-pullbacks of algebras

Take finitely many topological spaces and for each pair of these spaces choose a pair of corresponding closed subspaces that are identified by a homeomorpism. We note that this gluing procedure does not guarantee that the building pieces, or the gluings of some pieces, are embedded in the space obtained by putting together all given ingredients. Dually, we show that a certain sufficient condition, called the cocycle condition, is also necessary to guarantee sheaf-like properties of surjective multi-pullbacks of algebras with distributive lattices of ideals.

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arXiv2012

Finite closed coverings of compact quantum spaces

We show that a projective space P^\infty(Z/2) endowed with the Alexandrov topology is a classifying space for finite closed coverings of compact quantum spaces in the sense that any such a covering is functorially equivalent to a sheaf over this projective space. In technical terms, we prove that the category of finitely supported flabby sheaves of algebras is equivalent to the category of algebras with a finite set of ideals that intersect to zero and generate a distributive lattice. In particular, the Gelfand transform allows us to view finite closed coverings of compact Hausdorff spaces as flabby sheaves of commutative C*-algebras over P^\infty(Z/2).

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arXiv2011

The K-theory of Heegaard quantum lens spaces

Representing Z/N as roots of unity, we restrict a natural U(1)-action on the Heegaard quantum sphere to Z/N, and call the quotient spaces Heegaard quantum lens spaces. Then we use this representation of Z/N to construct an associated complex line bundle. This paper proves the stable non-triviality of these line bundles over any of the quantum lens spaces we consider. We use the pullback structure of the C*-algebra of the lens space to compute its K-theory via the Mayer-Vietoris sequence, and an explicit form of the Bass connecting homomorphism to prove the stable non-triviality of the bundles. On the algebraic side we prove the universality of the coordinate algebra of such a lens space for a particular set of generators and relations. We also prove the non-existence of non-trivial invertibles in the coordinate algebra of a lens space. Finally, we prolongate the Z/N-fibres of the Heegaard quantum sphere to U(1), and determine the algebraic structure of such a U(1)-prolongation.

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arXiv2010

Quantum projective space from Toeplitz cubes

From N-tensor powers of the Toeplitz algebra, we construct a multipullback C*-algebra that is a noncommutative deformation of the complex projective space CP(N). Using Birkhoff's Representation Theorem, we prove that the lattice of kernels of the canonical projections on components of the multipullback C*-algebra is free. This shows that our deformation preserves the freeness of the lattice of subsets generated by the affine covering of the complex projective space.

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arXiv2009

Galois-Type Extensions and Equivariant Projectivity

The theory of general Galois-type extensions is presented, including the interrelations between coalgebra extensions and algebra (co)extensions, properties of corresponding (co)translation maps, and rudiments of entwinings and factorisations. To achieve broad perspective, this theory is placed in the context of far reaching generalisations of the Galois condition to the setting of corings. At the same time, to bring together K-theory and general Galois theory, the equivariant projectivity of extensions is assumed resulting in the centrepiece concept of a principal extension. Motivated by noncommutative geometry, we employ such extensions as replacements of principal bundles. This brings about the notion of a strong connection and yields finitely generated projective associated modules, which play the role of noncommutative vector bundles. Subsequently, the theory of strong connections is developed. It is purported as a basic ingredient in the construction of the Chern character for Galois-type extensions (called the Chern-Galois character).

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arXiv2007

Piecewise principal comodule algebras

A comodule algebra P over a Hopf algebra H with bijective antipode is called principal if the coaction of H is Galois and P is H-equivariantly projective (faithfully flat) over the coaction-invariant subalgebra B. We prove that principality is a piecewise property: given N comodule-algebra surjections P->Pi whose kernels intersect to zero, P is principal if and only if all Pi's are principal. Furthermore, assuming the principality of P, we show that the lattice these kernels generate is distributive if and only if so is the lattice obtained by intersection with B. Finally, assuming the above distributivity property, we obtain a flabby sheaf of principal comodule algebras over a certain space that is universal for all such N-families of surjections P->Pi and such that the comodule algebra of global sections is P.

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