Quantum heaps, cops and heapy categories

A heap is a structure with a ternary operation which is intuitively a group with forgotten unit element. Quantum heaps are associative algebras with a ternary cooperation which are to the Hopf algebras what heaps are to groups, and, in particular, the category of copointed quantum heaps is isomorphic to the category of Hopf algebras. There is an intermediate structure of a cop in monoidal category which is in the case of vector spaces to a quantum heap about what is a coalgebra to a Hopf algebra. The representations of Hopf algebras make a rigid monoidal category. Similarly the representations of quantum heaps make a kind of category with ternary products, which we call a heapy category.Comment: 10 pages, an adaptation of an old 2001 preprin

Every quantum minor generates an Ore set

The subset multiplicatively generated by any given set of quantum minors and the unit element in the quantum matrix bialgebra satisfies the left and right Ore conditions.Comment: 7 pages; v2: Lemma 1 corrected; part Lemma 1 (iii) adde

Exponential Formulas and Lie Algebra Type Star Products

Given formal differential operators $F_i$ on polynomial algebra in several variables $x_1,...,x_n$, we discuss finding expressions $K_l$ determined by the equation $\exp(\sum_i x_i F_i)(\exp(\sum_j q_j x_j)) = \exp(\sum_l K_l x_l)$ and their applications. The expressions for $K_l$ are related to the coproducts for deformed momenta for the noncommutative space-times of Lie algebra type and also appear in the computations with a class of star products. We find combinatorial recursions and derive formal differential equations for finding $K_l$. We elaborate an example for a Lie algebra $su(2)$, related to a quantum gravity application from the literature