PlanetPhysics/Groupoid and Group Representations

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Groupoid representations

Whereas group representations of quantum unitary [[../QuantumOperatorAlgebra4/|operators]] are extensively employed in standard [[../QuantumParadox/|quantum mechanics]], the applications of groupoid representations are still under development. For example, a description of stochastic quantum mechanics in curved [[../SR/|spacetime]] (Drechsler and Tuckey, 1996) involving a [[../HilbertBundle/|Hilbert bundle]] is possible in terms of groupoid [[../CategoricalGroupRepresentation/|representations]] which can indeed be defined on such a Hilbert bundle $(X*ℍ,\pi )$, but cannot be expressed as the simpler group representations on a [[../NormInducedByInnerProduct/|Hilbert space]] $ℍ$. On the other hand, as in the case of group representations, [[../HilbertBundle/|unitary groupoid representations]] induce associated [[../VonNeumannAlgebra2/|C*-algebra]] representations. In the next subsection we recall some of the basic results concerning groupoid representations and their associated [[../HilbertBundle/|groupoid *-algebra representations]]. For further details and recent results in the mathematical theory of groupoid representations one has also available the succint monograph by Buneci (2003) and references cited therein (www.utgjiu.ro/math/mbuneci/preprint.html ).

Let us consider first the relationships between these mainly [[../CoIntersections/|algebraic]] [[../PreciseIdea/|concepts]] and their [[../TopologicalOrder2/|extended quantum symmetries]], also including relevant [[../LQG2/|computation]] examples. Let us consider first several further extensions of symmetry and [[../CubicalHigherHomotopyGroupoid/|algebraic topology]] in the context of [[../MathematicalFoundationsOfQuantumTheories/|local quantum physics/]] [[../SpaceTimeQuantizationInQuantumGravityTheories/|quantum field theory]], symmetry breaking, quantum chromodynamics and the development of novel [[../Supersymmetry/|supersymmetry]] theories of [[../LQG2/|quantum gravity]]. In this respect one can also take spacetime 'inhomogeneity' as a criterion for the comparisons between physical, partial or local, symmetries: on the one hand, the example of paracrystals reveals [[../Thermodynamics/|Thermodynamic]] disorder ([[../ThermodynamicLaws/|entropy]]) within its own spacetime framework, whereas in spacetime itself, whatever the selected model, the inhomogeneity arises through (super) gravitational effects. More specifically, in the former case one has the technique of the generalized Fourier--Stieltjes transform (along with [[../AssociatedGroupoidAlgebraRepresentations/|convolution]] and [[../HigherDimensionalQuantumAlgebroid/|Haar measure]]), and in view of the latter, we may compare the resulting 'broken'/paracrystal--type symmetry with that of the supersymmetry predictions for weak gravitational [[../CosmologicalConstant2/|fields]] (e.g., 'ghost' particles) along with the broken supersymmetry in the presence of intense gravitational fields. Another significant extension of [[../HilbertBundle/|quantum symmetries]] may result from the superoperator algebra/algebroids of Prigogine's quantum superoperators which are defined only for irreversible, infinite-dimensional [[../SimilarityAndAnalogousSystemsDynamicAdjointnessAndTopologicalEquivalence/|systems]] (Prigogine, 1980).

Definition of extended quantum groupoid and algebroid symmetries

[[../QuantumGroup4/|Quantum groups~]] $\to$ Representations ~ $\to$ [[../WeakHopfAlgebra/|weak Hopf algebras]] ~$\to$ [[../WeakHopfAlgebra/|~quantum groupoids]] and [[../Algebroids/|algebroids]] Our intention here is to view the latter scheme in terms of [[../HilbertBundle/|weak Hopf C*--algebroid]]-- and/or other-- extended symmetries, which we propose to do, for example, by incorporating the concepts of [[../I3/|rigged Hilbert spaces]] and \emph{sectional [[../Bijective/|functions]] for a [[../Cod/|small category]]}. We note, however, that an alternative approach to quantum 'groupoids' has already been reported (Maltsiniotis, 1992), (perhaps also related to [[../NoncommutativeGeometry4/|noncommutative geometry]]); this was later expressed in terms of deformation-quantization: the [[../HilbertBundle/|Hopf algebroid]] [[../CohomologicalProperties/|deformation]] of the universal enveloping algebras of [[../LieAlgebroids/|Lie algebroids]] (Xu, 1997) as the classical limit of a quantum 'groupoid'; this also parallels the introduction of quantum 'groups' as the deformation-quantization of Lie [[../QuantumOperatorAlgebra5/|bialgebras]]. Furthermore, such a Hopf algebroid approach (Lu, 1996) leads to [[../Cod/|categories]] of Hopf algebroid [[../RModule/|modules]] (Xu, 1997) which are monoidal, whereas the links between Hopf algebroids and [[../HilbertBundle/|monoidal bicategories]] were investigated by Day and Street (1997).

As defined under the following heading on [[../GroupoidHomomorphism2/|groupoids]], let $({𝖦}_{lc},\tau )$ be a [[../LocallyCompactGroupoid/|locally compact groupoid]] endowed with a (left) [[../QuantumOperatorAlgebra5/|Haar system]], and let $A=C^{*}({𝖦}_{lc},\tau )$ be the convolution $C^{*}$--algebra (we append $A$ with $\mathrm{𝟏}$ if necessary, so that $A$ is unital). Then consider such a groupoid representation

$\mathrm{\Lambda }:({𝖦}_{lc},\tau )⟶\{{\mathscr{H}}_x,{\sigma }_x{\}}_{x\in X}$ that respects a compatible measure ${\sigma }_x$ on ${\mathscr{H}}_x$ (cf Buneci, 2003). On taking a state $\rho$ on $A$, we assume a parametrization $({\mathscr{H}}_x,{\sigma }_x):=({\mathscr{H}}_{\rho },\sigma {)}_{x\in X}.$ Furthermore, each ${\mathscr{H}}_x$ is considered as a \emph{rigged Hilbert space} Bohm and Gadella (1989), that is, one also has the following nested inclusions: ${\mathrm{\Phi }}_x\subset ({\mathscr{H}}_x,{\sigma }_x)\subset {\mathrm{\Phi }}_x^{\times },$ in the usual manner, where ${\mathrm{\Phi }}_x$ is a dense subspace of ${\mathscr{H}}_x$ with the appropriate locally convex topology, and ${\mathrm{\Phi }}_x^{\times }$ is the space of continuous antilinear functionals of $\mathrm{\Phi }$~. For each $x\in X$, we require ${\mathrm{\Phi }}_x$ to be invariant under $\mathrm{\Lambda }$ and $\mathrm{I}\mathrm{m}\mathrm{\Lambda }|{\mathrm{\Phi }}_x$ is a continuous representation of ${𝖦}_{lc}$ on ${\mathrm{\Phi }}_x$~. With these conditions, representations of (proper) quantum groupoids that are derived for weak C*--Hopf algebras (or algebroids) modeled on rigged Hilbert spaces could be suitable generalizations in the framework of a [[../Hamiltonian2/|Hamiltonian]] generated [[../TrivialGroupoid/|semigroup]] of time evolution of a quantum system via integration of Schr\"odinger's equation $\iota \hslash \frac{\partial \psi }{\partial t}=H\psi$ as studied in the case of [[../BilinearMap/|Lie groups]] (Wickramasekara and Bohm, 2006). The adoption of the rigged Hilbert spaces is also based on how the latter are recognized as reconciling the Dirac and von Neumann approaches to quantum theories (Bohm and Gadella, 1989).

Next, let $𝖦$ be a locally compact Hausdorff groupoid and $X$ a [[../LocallyCompactHausdorffSpaces/|locally compact Hausdorff space]]. ($𝖦$ will be called a locally compact groupoid, or lc- groupoid for short). In order to achieve a small C*--category we follow a suggestion of A. Seda (private communication) by using a general principle in the context of Banach bundles (Seda, 1976, 982)). Let $q=(q_1,q_2):𝖦⟶X\times X$ be a continuous, open and [[../BCConjecture/|surjective]] map. For each $z=(x,y)\in X\times X$, consider the fibre ${𝖦}_z=𝖦(x,y)=q^{-1}(z)$, and set ${𝒜}_z=C_0({𝖦}_z)=C_0(𝖦(x,y))$ equipped with a uniform [[../NormInducedByInnerProduct/|norm]] $\Vert {\Vert }_z$~. Then we set $𝒜=\bigcup _z{𝒜}_z$~. We form a Banach bundle $p:𝒜⟶X\times X$ as follows. Firstly, the projection is defined via the typical fibre $p^{-1}(z)={𝒜}_z={𝒜}_{(x,y)}$~. Let $C_c(𝖦)$ denote the continuous complex valued functions on $𝖦$ with compact support. We obtain a sectional function $\tilde{\psi }:X\times X⟶𝒜$ defined via restriction as $\tilde{\psi }(z)=\psi |{𝖦}_z=\psi |𝖦(x,y)$~. Commencing from the [[../NormInducedByInnerProduct/|vector space]] $\gamma =\{\tilde{\psi }:\psi \in C_c(𝖦)\}$, the set $\{\tilde{\psi }(z):\tilde{\psi }\in \gamma \}$ is dense in ${𝒜}_z$~. For each $\tilde{\psi }\in \gamma$, the function $\Vert \tilde{\psi }(z){\Vert }_z$ is continuous on $X$, and each $\tilde{\psi }$ is a continuous [[../IsomorphicObjectsUnderAnIsomorphism/|section]] of $p:𝒜⟶X\times X$~. These facts follow from Seda (1982, [[../Formula/|theorem]] 1). Furthermore, under the convolution product $f*g$, \textit{the space $C_c(𝖦)$ forms an associative algebra over Failed to parse (unknown function "\bC"): {\displaystyle \bC} } (cf. Seda, 1982, Theorem 3).

Groupoids

Recall that a groupoid $𝖦$ is, loosely speaking, a small category with inverses over its set of [[../TrivialGroupoid/|objects]] $X=Ob(𝖦)$~. One often writes ${𝖦}_x^y$ for the set of [[../TrivialGroupoid/|morphisms]] in $𝖦$ from $x$ to $y$~. A [[../GroupoidHomomorphism2/|topological groupoid]] consists of a space $𝖦$, a distinguished subspace ${𝖦}^{(0)}=\mathrm{O}\mathrm{b}\mathrm{(}𝖦\mathsf{)}\subset 𝖦$, called {\it the space of objects} of $𝖦$, together with maps Failed to parse (unknown function "\xymatrix"): {\displaystyle r,s~:~ \xymatrix{{\mathsf{G}} \ar@<1ex>[r]^r \ar[r]_s & {\mathsf{G}}^{(0)}} } called the {\it range} and {\it [[../SmallCategory/|source maps]]} respectively, together with a law of [[../Cod/|composition]] $\circ :{𝖦}^{(2)}:=𝖦{\times }_{{𝖦}^{(0)}}𝖦=\{({\gamma }_1,{\gamma }_2)\in 𝖦\times 𝖦:s({\gamma }_1)=r({\gamma }_2)\}⟶𝖦,$ such that the following hold~:~

\item[(1)] $s({\gamma }_1\circ {\gamma }_2)=r({\gamma }_2),r({\gamma }_1\circ {\gamma }_2)=r({\gamma }_1)$~, for all $({\gamma }_1,{\gamma }_2)\in {𝖦}^{(2)}$~. \item[(2)] $s(x)=r(x)=x$~, for all $x\in {𝖦}^{(0)}$~. \item[(3)] $\gamma \circ s(\gamma )=\gamma ,r(\gamma )\circ \gamma =\gamma$~, for all $\gamma \in 𝖦$~. \item[(4)] $({\gamma }_1\circ {\gamma }_2)\circ {\gamma }_3={\gamma }_1\circ ({\gamma }_2\circ {\gamma }_3)$~. \item[(5)] Each $\gamma$ has a two--sided inverse ${\gamma }^{-1}$ with $\gamma {\gamma }^{-1}=r(\gamma ),{\gamma }^{-1}\gamma =s(\gamma )$~.

Furthermore, only for topological groupoids the inverse map needs be continuous. It is usual to call ${𝖦}^{(0)}=Ob(𝖦)$ the set of objects of $𝖦$~. For $u\in Ob(𝖦)$, the set of arrows $u⟶u$ forms a [[../TrivialGroupoid/|group]] ${𝖦}_u$, called the isotropy group of $𝖦$ at $u$ . Thus, as is well kown, a topological groupoid is just a groupoid internal to the category of [[../CoIntersections/|topological]] spaces and continuous maps. The notion of internal groupoid has proved significant in a number of fields, since groupoids generalise bundles of groups, group actions, and [[../TrivialGroupoid/|equivalence relations]]. For a further study of groupoids we refer the reader to Brown (2006).

Several examples of groupoids are:

• (a) locally compact groups, transformation groups, and any group in general (e.g. [59]
• (b) equivalence relations
• (c) tangent bundles
• (d) the [[../MoyalDeformation/|tangent groupoid]] (e.g. [4])
• (e) holonomy groupoids for foliations (e.g. [4])
• (f) Poisson groupoids (e.g. [81])
• (g) [[../Cod/|graph]] groupoids (e.g. [47, 64]).

As a simple example of a groupoid, consider (b) above. Thus, let R be an equivalence [[../Bijective/|relation]] on a set X. Then R is a groupoid under the following [[../Cod/|operations]]: $(x,y)(y,z)=(x,z),(x,y{)}^{-1}=(y,x)$. Here, ${𝖦}^0=X$, (the diagonal of $X\times X$ ) and $r((x,y))=x,s((x,y))=y$.

Thus, $R^2$ = $\{((x,y),(y,z)):(x,y),(y,z)\in R\}$. When $R=X\times X$, R is called a trivial groupoid. A special case of a [[../TrivialGroupoid/|trivial groupoid]] is $R=R_n=\{1,2,...,n\}\times \{1,2,...,n\}$. (So every i is equivalent to every j ). Identify $(i,j)\in R_n$ with the [[../Matrix/|matrix]] unit $e_{ij}$. Then the groupoid $R_n$ is just [[../Matrix/|matrix multiplication]] except that we only multiply $e_{ij},e_{kl}$ when $k=j$, and $(e_{ij}{)}^{-1}=e_{ji}$. We do not really lose anything by restricting the multiplication, since the pairs $e_{ij},e_{kl}$ excluded from groupoid multiplication just give the 0 product in normal algebra anyway.

For a groupoid ${𝖦}_{lc}$ to be a locally compact groupoid means that ${𝖦}_{lc}$ is required to be a (second countable) locally compact Hausdorff space , and the product and also inversion maps are required to be continuous. Each ${𝖦}_{lc}^u$ as well as the unit space ${𝖦}_{lc}^0$ is closed in ${𝖦}_{lc}$.

What replaces the left Haar measure on ${𝖦}_{lc}$ is a system of measures ${\lambda }^u$ ($u\in {𝖦}_{lc}^0$), where ${\lambda }^u$ is a positive [[../CoIntersections/|regular]] Borel measure on ${𝖦}_{lc}^u$ with dense support. In addition, the ${\lambda }^u$ 's are required to vary continuously (when integrated against $f\in C_c({𝖦}_{lc}))$ and to form an invariant family in the sense that for each x, the map $y\mapsto xy$ is a measure preserving [[../TrivialGroupoid/|homeomorphism]] from ${𝖦}_{lc}^s(x)$ onto ${𝖦}_{lc}^r(x)$. Such a system $\left\{{\lambda }^u\right\}$ is called a left Haar system for the locally compact groupoid ${𝖦}_{lc}$.

This is defined more precisely next.

Haar systems for locally compact topological groupoids

Let Failed to parse (unknown function "\xymatrix"): {\displaystyle \xymatrix{ {\mathsf{G}} \ar@<1ex>[r]^r \ar[r]_s & {\mathsf{G}}^{(0)}}=X } be a locally compact, locally trivial topological groupoid with its transposition into transitive (connected) components. Recall that for $x\in X$, the costar of $x$ denoted ${\mathrm{C}\mathrm{O}}^{\mathrm{*}}\mathrm{(}\mathrm{x}\mathrm{)}$ is defined as the closed set $\bigcup \{𝖦(y,x):y\in 𝖦\}$, whereby $𝖦(x_0,y_0)\hookrightarrow {\mathrm{C}\mathrm{O}}^{\mathrm{*}}\mathrm{(}\mathrm{x}\mathrm{)}\mathrm{⟶}\mathrm{X},$is a principal $𝖦(x_0,y_0)$--bundle relative to fixed base points $(x_0,y_0)$~. Assuming all relevant sets are locally compact, then following Seda (1976), a (left) Haar system on $𝖦$ denoted $(𝖦,\tau )$ (for later purposes), is defined to comprise of i) a measure $\kappa$ on $𝖦$, ii) a measure $\mu$ on $X$ and iii) a measure ${\mu }_x$ on ${\mathrm{C}\mathrm{O}}^{\mathrm{*}}\mathrm{(}\mathrm{x}\mathrm{)}$ such that for every Baire set $E$ of $𝖦$, the following hold on setting $E_x=E\cap {\mathrm{C}\mathrm{O}}^{\mathrm{*}}\mathrm{(}\mathrm{x}\mathrm{)}$~:

 \item[(1)] $x\mapsto {\mu }_x(E_x)$ is measurable. \item[(2)] $\kappa (E)=\underset{x}{\int }{\mu }_x(E_x)d{\mu }_x$ ~. \item[(3)] ${\mu }_z(t{E}_x)={\mu }_x(E_x)$, for all $t\in 𝖦(x,z)$ and $x,z\in 𝖦$~.

The presence of a left Haar system on ${𝖦}_{lc}$ has important topological implications: it requires that the range map $r:{𝖦}_{lc}\to {𝖦}_{lc}^0$ is open. For such a ${𝖦}_{lc}$ with a left Haar system, the vector space $C_c({𝖦}_{lc})$ is a convolution *--algebra , where for $f,g\in C_c({𝖦}_{lc})$:

$f*g(x)=\int f(t)g(t^{-1}x)d{\lambda }^{r(x)}(t),$ with $f*(x)=\overline{f(x^{-1})}$.

One has $C^{*}({𝖦}_{lc})$ to be the enveloping C*--algebra of $C_c({𝖦}_{lc})$ (and also representations are required to be continuous in the inductive limit topology). Equivalently, it is the completion of ${\pi }_{univ}(C_c({𝖦}_{lc}))$ where ${\pi }_{univ}$ is the universal representation of ${𝖦}_{lc}$. For example, if ${𝖦}_{lc}=R_n$, then $C^{*}({𝖦}_{lc})$ is just the finite dimensional algebra $C_c({𝖦}_{lc})=M_n$, the span of the $e_{i^{\prime }j}$s.

There exists (cf. ) a measurable Hilbert bundle $({𝖦}_{lc}^0,ℍ,\mu )$ with $ℍ=\left\{{ℍ}_{u\in {𝖦}_{lc}^0}^u\right\}$ and a G-representation L on $ℍ$. Then, for every pair $\xi ,\eta$ of [[../PiecewiseLinear/|square]] integrable sections of $ℍ$, it is required that the function $x\mapsto (L(x)\xi (s(x)),\eta (r(x)))$ be $\nu$--measurable. The representation $\mathrm{\Phi }$ of $C_c({𝖦}_{lc})$ is then given by:\\ $⟨\mathrm{\Phi }(f)\xi |,\eta ⟩=\int f(x)(L(x)\xi (s(x)),\eta (r(x)))d{\nu }_0(x)$.

The triple $(\mu ,ℍ,L)$ is called a measurable ${𝖦}_{lc}$--Hilbert bundle.