Tetrahedron Reflection Equation

Reflection equation for the scattering of lines moving in half-plane is obtained. The corresponding geometric picture is related with configurations of half-planes touching the boundary plane in 2+1 dimensions. This equation can be obtained as an additional to the tetrahedron equation consistency condition for a modified Zamolodchikov algebra.Comment: 10 pages, LaTe

GL_q(N)-covariant braided differential bialgebras

We study a possibility to define the (braided) comultiplication for the GLq(N)-covariant differential complexes on some quantum spaces. We discover such `differential bialgebras' (and Hopf algebras) on the bosonic and fermionic quantum hyperplanes (with additive coproduct) and on the braided matrix algebra BMq(N) with both multiplicative and additive coproducts. The latter case is related (for N=2) to the q-Minkowski space and q-Poincare algebra.Comment: 7 page

Yang-Mills and Born-Infeld actions on finite group spaces

Discretized nonabelian gauge theories living on finite group spaces G are defined by means of a geometric action \int Tr F\wedge *F . This technique is extended to obtain a discrete version of the Born-Infeld action.Comment: Talk presented at GROUP24, Paris, July 2002. LaTeX, 4 pages, IOP style

Q-multilinear Algebra

The Cayley-Hamilton-Newton theorem - which underlies the Newton identities and the Cayley-Hamilton identity - is reviewed, first, for the classical matrices with commuting entries, second, for two q-matrix algebras, the RTT-algebra and the RLRL-algebra. The Cayley-Hamilton-Newton identities for these q-algebras are related by the factorization map. A class of algebras M(R,F) is presented. The algebras M(R,F) include the RTT-algebra and the RLRL-algebra as particular cases. The algebra M(R,F) is defined by a pair of compatible matrices R and F. The Cayley-Hamilton-Newton theorem for the algebras M(R,F) is stated. A nontrivial example of a compatible pair is given.Comment: LaTeX, 12 pages. Lecture given at the 3rd International Workshop on "Lie Theory and Its Applications in Physics - Lie III", 11 - 14 July 1999, Clausthal, German

Generalized Cayley-Hamilton-Newton identities

The q-generalizations of the two fundamental statements of matrix algebra -- the Cayley-Hamilton theorem and the Newton relations -- to the cases of quantum matrix algebras of an "RTT-" and of a "Reflection equation" types have been obtained in [2]-[6]. We construct a family of matrix identities which we call Cayley-Hamilton-Newton identities and which underlie the characteristic identity as well as the Newton relations for the RTT- and Reflection equation algebras, in the sence that both the characteristic identity and the Newton relations are direct consequences of the Cayley-Hamilton-Newton identities.Comment: 6 pages, submitted to the Proceedings of 7-th International Colloquium "Quantum Groups and Integrable Systems" (Prague, 18-20 June 1998