Spinor and Oscillator Representations of Quantum Groups
Spinor and Oscillator Representations of Quantum Groups
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10.1007/978-1-4612-0261-5_5
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1994
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Jintai Ding;I. Frenkel
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作者:
Jintai Ding;I. Frenkel
The theory of quantum groups originates in completely integrable models of statistical mechanics and quantum field theory (see [FRT],[J4]). It becomes a truly mathematical theory with the independent discovery by Drinfeld [Dl] and Jimbo [JI] of a q-deformation of the universal enveloping algebra of an arbitrary Kac-Moody algebra. This remarkable result immediately raised numerous questions about q-deformations of various structures associated to Kac-Moody algebras. A major step in this direction was done by Lusztig [L], who obtained a q-deformation of the category of highest weight representations of Kac-Moody algebras for generic or formal parameter q. Before and after the work of Lusztig, there were a number of successful results on q-deformation of various mathematical structures of finite dimensional and affine Lie algebras [D2],[J2],[FJ],[H],[FR], etc. However each particular problem required its own insight combined with good luck and in some cases presented formidable difficulties. The main complication with the existing theory is the absence of the general invariant definition of the two most interesting subclasses of quantum groups associated to finitedimensional and affine Lie algebras. The only available general definition using generators and relations obscures the invariant algebraic and geometric nature of quantum groups and impedes some important applications. The necessity of an invariant approach to quantum groups was stressed in [FRT], where a q-analogue of the matrix realization of classical Lie algebras was given. But even the latter definition is based on a remarkable but rather ad hoc solution of Yang-Baxter equation and can be viewed as the best available compromise.In this paper, we would like to develop an invariant approach to various representation theoretical constructions related to quantum groups. More specifically, we define quantum Clifford and Weyl algebras using the general representation theory of quantum groups. We show that the explicit formulas for quantum Clifford and Weyl algebras match the ones