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Braided Matrix Structure of q-Minkowski Space and q-Poincare Group

Shahn Majid, Ulrich Meyer

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9312170

Abstract

We clarify the relation between the approach to q-Minkowski space of Carow-Watamura et al. with an approach based on the idea of 2× 2 braided Hermitean matrices. The latter are objects like super-matrices but with Bose-Fermi statistics replaced by braid statistics. We also obtain new R-matrix formulae for the q-Poincare group in this framework.

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