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THE QUANTUM SPHERES AND THEIR EMBEDDING INTO QUANTUM MINKOWSKI SPACE-TIME M. LAGRAA Received 3 November 2001 and in revised form 12 April 2002 We recast the Podleś spheres in the noncommutative physics context by showing that they can be regarded as slices along the time coordinate of the different regions of the quantum Minkowski space-time. The inves- tigation of the transformations of the quantum sphere states under the left coaction of the SOq (3) group leads to a decomposition of the trans- formed Hilbert space states in terms of orthogonal subspaces exhibiting the periodicity of the quantum sphere states. 1. Introduction A great variety of works based on the quantum spheres have been developed since the appearance of Podleś spheres [11] and their sym- metries [12]. Most part of these studies have been done either in the quantum bundle formalism where the quantum spheres provide con- crete examples to test the different structures of this formalism [1, 5, 6] or, more recently, in quantum field theories on quantum spheres which should respect the SUq (2) quantum symmetries (see, e.g., [2, 3, 4, 10] and the references therein). On the other hand, the evolution of a free particle in the quantum Minkowski space-time has been analysed in [8] and the transformations of its quantum velocity under the Lorentz subgroup of boost transfor- mations in [7]. In Section 2 of this paper, we pursue these studies by recasting the quantum spheres in the noncommutative special relativity where we show that we can regard them as quantum manifolds embedded into the quantum Minkowski space-time. This embedding preserves the reality c Copyright 2002 Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Applied Mathematics 2:7 (2002) 315–335 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 16W30, 22E43, 20G45, 81R05 URL: /10.1155/S1110757X0211103X 316 The quantum sphere structure and the commut