Quantization of a Poisson structure on products of principal affine spaces

Abstract: We give the analogue for Hopf algebras of the polyuble Lie bialgebra construction by Fock and Rosli. By applying this construction to the Drinfeld-Jimbo quantum group, we obtain a deformation quantization $\mathbb{C}\hslash[(N \backslash G)^m]$ of a Poisson structure $\pi^{(m)}$ on products $(N \backslash G)^m$ of principal affine spaces of a connected and simply connected complex semisimple Lie group $G$. The Poisson structure $\pi^{(m)}$ descends to a Poisson structure $\pi_m$ on products $(B \backslash G)^m$ of the flag variety of $G$ which was introduced and studied by the Lu and the author. Any ample line bundle on $(B \backslash G)^m$ inherits a natural flat Poisson connection, and the corresponding graded Poisson algebra is quantized to a subalgebra of $\mathbb{C}\hslash[(N \backslash G)^m]$. We define the notion of a strongly coisotropic subalgebra in a Hopf algebra, and explain how strong coisotropicity guarantees that any homogeneous coordinate ring of a homogeneous space of a Poisson Lie group can be quantized in the sense of Ciccoli, Fioresi, and Gavarini.