Quantum Principal Bundles

A noncommutative-geometric generalization of the theory of principal bundles is sketched. A differential calculus over corresponding quantum principal bundles is analysed. The formalism of connections is presented. In particular, operators of covariant derivative and horizontal projection are described and analysed. Quantum counterparts for the Bianchi identity and the Weil's homomorphism are found. Illustrative examples are considered. (Lecture presented at the XXII-th Conference on Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Mexico, September 1993).Comment: 10 pages, LaTe

Quantum Gauge Transformations and Braided Structure on Quantum Principal Bundles

It is shown that every quantum principal bundle is braided, in the sense that there exists an intrinsic braid operator twisting the functions on the bundle. A detailed algebraic analysis of this operator is performed. In particular, it turns out that the braiding admits a natural extension to the level of arbitrary differential forms on the bundle. Applications of the formalism to the study of quantum gauge transformations are presented.Comment: 20 pages, AMS-LaTe

Characteristic Classes of Quantum Principal Bundles

A noncommutative-geometric generalization of classical Weil theory of characteristic classes is presented, in the conceptual framework of quantum principal bundles. A particular care is given to the case when the bundle does not admit regular connections. A cohomological description of the domain of the Weil homomorphism is given. Relations between universal characteristic classes for the regular and the general case are analyzed. In analogy with classical geometry, a natural spectral sequence is introduced and investigated. The appropriate counterpart of the Chern character is constructed, for structures admitting regular connections. Illustrative examples and constructions are presented.Comment: 48 pages, AMS-LaTe

On Differential Structures on Quantum Principal Bundles

A constructive approach to differential calculus on quantum principal bundles is presented. The calculus on the bundle is built in an intrinsic manner, starting from given graded (differential) *-algebras representing horizontal forms on the bundle and differential forms on the base manifold, together with a family of antiderivations acting on horizontal forms, playing the role of covariant derivatives of regular connections. In this conceptual framework, a natural differential calculus on the structure quantum group is described.Comment: 15 pages (AMS-LaTeX

Quantum Classifying Spaces and Universal Quantum Characteristic Classes

A construction of the noncommutative-geometric counterparts of classical classifying spaces is presented, for general compact matrix quantum structure groups. A quantum analogue of the classical concept of the classifying map is introduced and analyzed. Interrelations with the abstract algebraic theory of quantum characteristic classes are discussed. Various non-equivalent approaches to defining universal characteristic classes are outlined.Comment: 12 pages, AMS-LaTeX, Lectures, Quantum Groups and Quantum Spaces Minisemester, Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland, November 199

Classical Spinor Structures on Quantum Spaces

A noncommutative-geometric generalization of the classical concept of spinor structure is presented. This is done in the framework of the formalism of quantum principal bundles. In particular, analogs of the Dirac operator and the Laplacian are introduced and analyzed. A general construction of examples of quantum spaces with a spinor structure is presented.Comment: 14 pages (AMS-LaTeX

On Braided Quantum Groups

A braided generalization of the concept of Hopf algebra (quantum group) is presented. The generalization overcomes an inherent geometrical inhomogeneity of quantum groups, in the sense of allowing completely pointless objects. All braid-type equations appear as a consequence of initial axioms. Braided counterparts of basic algebraic relations between fundamental entities of the standard theory are found.Comment: 14 pages, (AMS-LaTeX

Braided Clifford Algebras as Braided Quantum Groups

The paper deals with braided Clifford algebras, understood as Chevalley-Kahler deformations of braided exterior algebras. It is shown that Clifford algebras based on involutive braids can be naturally endowed with a braided quantum group structure. Basic group entities are constructed explicitly.Comment: 10 pages, AMS-LaTe

General Frame Structures On Quantum Principal Bundles

A noncommutative-geometric generalization of the classical formalism of frame bundles is developed, incorporating into the theory of quantum principal bundles the concept of the Levi-Civita connection. The construction of a natural differential calculus on quantum principal frame bundles is presented, including the construction of the associated differential calculus on the structure group. General torsion operators are defined and analyzed. Illustrative examples are presented.Comment: 16 pages, AMS-LaTeX, extended versio

First-Order Differential Calculi Over Multi-Braided Quantum Groups

A differential calculus of the first order over multi-braided quantum groups is developed. In analogy with the standard theory, left/right-covariant and bicovariant differential structures are introduced and investigated. Furthermore, antipodally covariant calculi are studied. The concept of the *-structure on a multi-braided quantum group is formulated, and in particular the structure of left-covariant *-covariant calculi is analyzed. A special attention is given to differential calculi covariant with respect to the action of the associated braid system. In particular it is shown that the left/right braided-covariance appears as a consequence of the left/right-covariance relative to the group action. Braided counterparts of all basic results of the standard theory are found.Comment: 32 pages, AMS-LaTeX/1, this is the revised version of an unpublished `92 articl