Noncommutative instantons on the 4 sphere from quantum groups

Dec, 2000
15 pages
Published in:
  • Commun.Math.Phys. 226 (2002) 419-432
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We describe an approach to the noncommutative instantons on the 4-sphere based on quantum group theory. We quantize the Hopf bundle S^7 --> S^4 making use of the concept of quantum coisotropic subgroups. The analysis of the semiclassical Poisson--Lie structure of U(4) shows that the diagonal SU(2) must be conjugated to be properly quantized. The quantum coisotropic subgroup we obtain is the standard SU_q(2); it determines a new deformation of the 4-sphere Sigma^4_q as the algebra of coinvariants in S_q^7. We show that the quantum vector bundle associated to the fundamental corepresentation of SU_q(2) is finitely generated and projective and we compute the explicit projector. We give the unitary representations of Sigma^4_q, we define two 0-summable Fredholm modules and we compute the Chern-Connes pairing between the projector and their characters. It comes out that even the zero class in cyclic homology is non trivial.
Note:
  • 16 pages, LaTeX; revised version
  • gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
  • instanton
  • space: S(4)
  • differential geometry: noncommutative
  • fibre bundle
  • quantum group: representation