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Topological generation

Given two compact matrix groups represented by matrices of the same size $H_1,H_2\subset\GL_N$ , we may ask, what compact matrix group they generate. That is, find the smallest compact subgroup $\langle H_1,H_2\rangle\subset\GL_N$ containing both $H_1$ and $H_2$ . We may ask the same question also for compact matrix quantum groups. The idea goes back to [Chi15], [BCV17].

Definition

Let $H_1$ and $H_2$ be compact matrix quantum groups with fundamental representations $v_1$ and $v_2$ of the same size. We define $G:=\langle H_1,H_2\rangle$ to be the smallest compact matrix quantum group containing $H_1$ and $H_2$ . We say that $G$ is topologically generated by $H_1$ and $H_2$ . That is $G=(C(G),u)$ is a quantum group satisfying the following.

$H_1,H_2\subset G$ , so the size of $u$ coincides with the size of $v_1$ and $v_2$ and there are surjective $*$ -homomorphisms $\phi_k\colon C(G)\to C(H_k)$ mapping $u_{ij}\mapsto [v_k]_{ij}$ for $k=1,2$ .
For every compact quantum group $\tilde G$ such that $H_1,H_2\subset\tilde G\subset G$ , we have~ $G=\tilde G$ .

Uniqueness, existence, and characterization

Note that already in the case of groups it may happen that for two compact matrix groups $H_1$ , $H_2$ , the group they generate $\langle H_1,H_2\rangle$ is not compact. We can fix this issue assuming that the compact groups are unitary $H_1,H_2\subset U_N$ . Then surely $\langle H_1,H_2\rangle\subset U_N$ and hence it is compact.

Thus, also for compact matrix quantum groups $H_1$ and $H_2$ , the quantum group $\langle H_1,H_2\rangle$ may not exist unless we assume $H_1,H_2\subset U^+(F)$ for some common $F\in\GL_N$ . This can be formulated as an equivalence.

Suppose $G$ , $H_1$ , and $H_2$ are compact matrix quantum groups with unitary fundamental representations of the same size. The following are equivalent.

$G=\langle H_1,H_2\rangle$ ,
$I_G=I_{H_1}\cap I_{H_2}$ ,
$\FundRep_G(w_1,w_2)=\FundRep_{H_1}(w_1,w_2)\cap\FundRep_{H_2}(w_1,w_2)$ for all $w_1,w_2$ .

In particular, $\langle H_1,H_2\rangle$ exists if and only if there is a~matrix~ $F$ such that $H_1,H_2\subset U^+(F)$ .

References

[Chi15] Alexandru Chirvasitu, 2015. Residually finite quantum group algebras. Journal of Functional Analysis, 268(11), pp.3508–3533.

[BCV17] Michael Brannan and Benoît Collins and Roland Vergnioux, 2017. The Connes embedding property for quantum group von Neumann algebras. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 369, pp.3799–3819.

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Topological generation

Definition

Uniqueness, existence, and characterization

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