We describe a locally trivial quantum principal U (1)-bundle over the quantum space S 2 pq which is a noncommutative analogue of the usual Hopf bundle. We also provide results concerning the structure of its total space algebra (irreducible *-representations and topological K-groups) and its Galois aspects (Galois property, existence of a strong connection, non-cleftness).

Reduction for field theories with symmetry can be done either covariantly—that is, on spacetime—or dynamically—that is, after spacetime is split into space and time. The purpose of this article is to show that these two reduction procedures are, in an appropriate sense, equivalent for a class of field theories whose fields take values in a principal bundle. One can think of this class of field ...

Nomenclature β,γ(∈ S) = The gimbal and wheel angles. (rad) Rβ(∈ SO(3)) = Transformation from gimbal frame G to the spacecraft body frame B. Is = Spacecraft inertia without the CMG gimbal and wheel inertia. (kg.m) Ig, Ir = Gimbal frame inertia, wheel inertia about own centre of mass represented in gimbal frame. (kg.m) (Igr)β = Combined inertia of gimbal frame and wheel in the spacecraft frame. R...

1. A principal bundle 33(X, G) with base space X and group G is called "locally flat" if the structural group G can be reduced to a totally disconnected subgroup GiCG, or in other words: if there exists a totally disconnected subgroup GiQG, a principal bundle 33i(X, Gi) and an injection j: Soi—>33 [l ]. For instance, if a differentiable bundle 33 admits an infinitesimal connection whose curvatu...

We consider how to test for group differences of shapes given longitudinal data. In particular, we are interested in differences of longitudinal models of each group's subjects. We introduce a generalization of principal geodesic analysis to the tangent bundle of a shape space. This allows the estimation of the variance and principal directions of the distribution of trajectories that summarize...

Starting from a Lie group G whose Lie algebra is equipped with an invariant nondegenerate symmetric bilinear form, we show that 4-dimensional BF theory with cosmological term gives rise to a TQFT satisfying a generalization of Atiyah's axioms to manifolds equipped with principal G-bundle. The case G = GL(4; R) is especially interesting because every 4-manifold is then naturally equipped with a ...

Let G be a (real or complex) semisimple Lie group, whose Lie algebra g is endowed with a so called jkj{grading, i.e. a grading of the form g = g ?k g k , such that no simple factor of G is of type A 1. Let P be the subgroup corresponding to the subalgebra p = g 0 g k. The aim of this paper is to clarify the geometrical meaning of Cartan connections corresponding to the pair (G; P) and to study ...

We continue the analysis of representations of cylindrical functions and fluxes which are commonly used as elementary variables of Loop Quantum Gravity. We consider an arbitrary principal bundle of a compact connected structure group and, following Sahlmann’s ideas [1], define a holonomy-flux ∗-algebra whose elements correspond to the elementary variables. There exists a natural action of autom...

Starting from a Lie group G whose Lie algebra is equipped with an invariant nondegenerate symmetric bilinear form, we show that 4-dimensional BF theory with cosmological term gives rise to a TQFT satisfying a generalization of Atiyah’s axioms to manifolds equipped with principal G-bundle. The case G = GL(4,R) is especially interesting because every 4-manifold is then naturally equipped with a p...

fibre is the re-dimensional complex projective space (complex projective co-tangent bundle). This bundle of complex dimension 2re + l is our M. Considering the fibre of T(V) as the (2w+2)-dimensional real vector space, we take as P the co-tangent sphere bundle over V (i.e., the fibre of P is a sphere in the fibre of T(V)). T(V) — V is the principal fibre bundle associated with a line bundle L o...