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A Pseudo-cocycle for the Comultiplication on the Quantum SU(2) Group

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We show that the comultiplication on the quantum group SU q (2) may be obtained from that on the quantum semigroup SU 0(2) by twisting with a unitary 2-pseudo-cocycle.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, 2308, Australia

    Jeong Hee Hong & Wojciech Szymański

  2. Applied Mathematics, Korea Maritime University, Busan, 606–791, South Korea

    Jeong Hee Hong

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Work supported by the ARC Linkage International Fellowship LX0667294, and by the Korea Research Foundation Grant (KRF-2004-041-C00024).

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Hong, J.H., Szymański, W. A Pseudo-cocycle for the Comultiplication on the Quantum SU(2) Group. Lett Math Phys 83, 1–11 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11005-007-0201-z

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