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The free modified bistochastic quantum groups are the elements of a sequence of compact matrix quantum groups introduced by Weber in [Web12]. Each
can be seen as a free counterpart of the bistochastic group
of the corresponding dimension
. However, differently from the other matrix groups,
actually has two free counterparts, the second being the free freely modified bistochastic quantum group
as well, defined by Banica and Speicher in [BanSp09].
Given , the free modified bistochastic quantum group
is the compact matrix quantum group
where
organizes the generators
of the (unital) universal C*-algebra
where is the complex conjugate of
and
the transpose, where
is the identity
-matrix and where
is the unit of the universal
-algebra.
The definition can also be expressed by saying that the fundamental corpresentation matrix of
is bistochastic'.
Note that [BanSp09] also studies free easy quantum groups denoted by , which are actually not the free modified bistochastic quantum groups treated in this article. Instead,
in [BanSp09] corresponds to
, the free freely modified bistochastic quantum group.
The fundamental corepresentation matrix of
is in particular orthogonal. Hence,
is a compact quantum subgroup of the free orthogonal quantum group
.
If denotes the closed two-sided ideal of
generated by the relations
for any
, then
is isomorphic to the
-algebra
of continuous functions on the modified bistochastic group
, the subgroup
of
given by signed bistochastic matrices. Hence,
is a compact quantum supergroup of
.
The free modified bistochastic quantum groups are an easy family of compact matrix quantum groups, i.e., the intertwiner spaces of their corepresentation categories are induced by a category of partitions. More precisely, it is the category of all non-crossing partitions of even size with small blocks that induces the corepresentation categories of
. Its canonical generating partition is
.