Modified braid equations, Baxterizations and noncommutative spaces for the quantum groups GLq(N),SOq(N)GL_{q}(N), SO_{q}(N) and Spq(N)Sp_{q}(N)

Modified braid equations satisfied by generalized ${\hat R}$ matrices (for a {\em given} set of group relations obeyed by the elements of ${\sf T}$ matrices ) are constructed for q-deformed quantum groups $GL_q (N), SO_q (N)$ and $Sp_q (N)$ with arbitrary values of $N$. The Baxterization of ${\hat R}$ matrices, treated as an aspect complementary to the {\em modification} of the braid equation, is obtained for all these cases in particularly elegant forms. A new class of braid matrices is discovered for the quantum groups $SO_{q}(N)$ and $Sp_{q}(N)$. The ${\hat R}$ matrices of this class, while being distinct from restrictions of the universal ${\hat{\cal R}}$ matrix to the corresponding vector representations, satisfy the standard braid equation. The modified braid equation and the Baxterization are obtained for this new class of ${\hat R}$ matrices. Diagonalization of the generalized ${\hat R}$ matrices is studied. The diagonalizers are obtained explicitly for some lower dimensional cases in a convenient way, giving directly the eigenvalues of the corresponding ${\hat R}$ matrices. Applications of such diagonalization are then studied in the context of associated covariantly quantized noncommutative spaces.Comment: 33 page

The dual (p,q)(p,q)-Alexander-Conway Hopf algebras and the associated universal T{\cal T}-matrix

The dually conjugate Hopf algebras $Fun_{p,q}(R)$ and $U_{p,q}(R)$ associated with the two-parametric $(p,q)$-Alexander-Conway solution $(R)$ of the Yang-Baxter equation are studied. Using the Hopf duality construction, the full Hopf structure of the quasitriangular enveloping algebra $U_{p,q}(R)$ is extracted. The universal ${\cal T}$-matrix for $Fun_{p,q}(R)$ is derived. While expressing an arbitrary group element of the quantum group characterized by the noncommuting parameters in a representation independent way, the ${\cal T}$-matrix generalizes the familiar exponential relation between a Lie group and its Lie algebra. The universal ${\cal R}$-matrix and the FRT matrix generators, $L^{(\pm )}$, for $U_{p,q}(R)$ are derived from the ${\cal T}$-matrix.Comment: LaTeX, 15 pages, to appear in Z. Phys. C: Particles and Field