Tensor product representations of the quantum double of a compact group

Authors
Publication date 1998
Journal Communications in Mathematical Physics
Volume | Issue number 198
Pages (from-to) 157-186
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract We consider the quantum double of a compact group G, following an earlier paper. We use the explicit comultiplication on in order to build tensor products of irreducible *-representations. Then we study their behaviour under the action of the R-matrix, and their decomposition into irreducible *-representations. The example of is treated in detail, with explicit formulas for direct integral decomposition (“Clebsch–Gordan series”) and Clebsch-Gordan coefficients. We point out possible physical applications.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/s002200050475
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