TY - JOUR T1 - Noncommutative families of instantons JF - Int. Math. Res. Not. vol. 2008, Article ID rnn038 Y1 - 2008 A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Chiara Pagani A1 - Cesare Reina A1 - Walter van Suijlekom AB - We construct $\\\\theta$-deformations of the classical groups SL(2,H) and Sp(2). Coacting on the basic instanton on a noncommutative four-sphere $S^4_\\\\theta$, we construct a noncommutative family of instantons of charge 1. The family is parametrized by the quantum quotient of $SL_\\\\theta(2,H)$ by $Sp_\\\\theta(2)$. PB - Oxford University Press UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3417 U1 - 918 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Hopf bundle over a quantum four-sphere from the symplectic group JF - Commun. Math. Phys. 263 (2006) 65-88 Y1 - 2006 A1 - Giovanni Landi A1 - Chiara Pagani A1 - Cesare Reina AB - We construct a quantum version of the SU(2) Hopf bundle $S^7 \\\\to S^4$. The quantum sphere $S^7_q$ arises from the symplectic group $Sp_q(2)$ and a quantum 4-sphere $S^4_q$ is obtained via a suitable self-adjoint idempotent $p$ whose entries generate the algebra $A(S^4_q)$ of polynomial functions over it. This projection determines a deformation of an (anti-)instanton bundle over the classical sphere $S^4$. We compute the fundamental $K$-homology class of $S^4_q$ and pair it with the class of $p$ in the $K$-theory getting the value -1 for the topological charge. There is a right coaction of $SU_q(2)$ on $S^7_q$ such that the algebra $A(S^7_q)$ is a non trivial quantum principal bundle over $A(S^4_q)$ with structure quantum group $A(SU_q(2))$. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2179 U1 - 2065 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER -