We introduce a new quantum group which is a quantization of the enveloping superalgebra of a twisted affine Lie superalgebra of type Q. We study generators and relations for superalgebras in the finite and twisted affine cases, and also universal central extensions. Afterwards, we apply the FRT formalism to a certain solution of the quantum Yang-Baxter equation to define that new quantum group ...

The aim of this paper is to prove that a control affine system on a manifold is equivalent by diffeomorphism to a linear system on a Lie group or a homogeneous space if and only the vector fields of the system are complete and generate a finite dimensional Lie algebra. A vector field on a connected Lie group is linear if its flow is a one parameter group of automorphisms. An affine vector field...

We observe that, for fixed n ≥ 3, each of the Artin groups of finite type An, Bn = Cn, and affine type Ãn−1 and C̃n−1 is a central extension of a finite index subgroup of the mapping class group of the (n + 2)-punctured sphere. (The centre is trivial in the affine case and infinite cyclic in the finite type cases). Using results of Ivanov and Korkmaz on abstract commensurators of surface mapping...

We show that every irreducible, simply connected curve on a toric affine surface X over C is an orbit closure of a Gm-action on X . It follows that up to the action of the automorphism group Aut(X) there are only finitely many non-equivalent embeddings of the affine line A in X . A similar description is given for simply connected curves in the quotients of the affine plane by small finite line...

The Nagano-Yagi-Goldmann theorem states that on the torus T, every affine (or projective) structure is invariant or is constructed on the basis of some Goldmann rings [N-Y]. It shows the interest to study the invariant affine structure on the torus T or on abelian Lie groups. Recently, the works of Kim [K] and Dekempe-Ongenae [D-O] precise the number of non equivalent invariant affine structure...

This note was inspired by a colloquium talk given by S. S. Abhyankar at the Tata Institute, on the work of Abhyankar, Popp and Seiler (see [2]). It was pointed out in this talk that classical modular curves can be used to construct (by specialization) coverings of the affine line in positive characteristic. In this “modular” optic it seemed natural to consider Drinfel’d modular curves for const...

In any Coxeter group, the conjugates of elements in the standard minimal generating set are called reflections and the minimal number of reflections needed to factor a particular element is called its reflection length. In this article we prove that the reflection length function on an affine Coxeter group has a uniform upper bound. More precisely we prove that the reflection length function on...

We introduce an affine generalization of counter automata, and analyze their ability as well as affine finite automata. Our contributions are as follows. We show that there is a language that can be recognized by exact realtime affine counter automata but by neither 1-way deterministic pushdown automata nor realtime deterministic k-counter automata. We also show that a certain promise problem, ...

A connected component of an affine algebraic group is called periodic if all its elements have finite order. We give a characterization of periodic components in terms of automorphisms with finite number of fixed points. It is also discussed which connected groups have finite extensions with periodic components. The results are applied to the study of the normalizer of a maximal torus in a simp...

finite affine groups are given by groups of translations and di-lations on finite cyclic groups. for cyclic groups of prime orderwe develop a time-scale (wavelet) analysis and show that for alarge class of non-zero window signals/vectors, the generatedfull cyclic wavelet system constitutes a frame whose canonicaldual is a cyclic wavelet frame.