Quantum E(2) groups for complex deformation parameters

Abstract

We construct a family of [Formula: see text] deformations of [Formula: see text] group for nonzero complex parameters [Formula: see text] as locally compact braided quantum groups over the circle group [Formula: see text] viewed as a quasitriangular quantum group with respect to the unitary [Formula: see text]-matrix [Formula: see text] for all [Formula: see text]. For real [Formula: see text], the deformation coincides with Woronowicz’s [Formula: see text] groups. As an application, we study the braided analogue of the contraction procedure between [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] groups in the spirit of Woronowicz’s quantum analogue of the classic Inönü–Wigner group contraction. Consequently, we obtain the bosonization of braided [Formula: see text] groups by contracting [Formula: see text] groups.