Quantum deformations of singletons and of free zero-mass fields

1993

We consider quantum deformations of the real symplectic (or anti-De Sitter) algebra sp(4), ℝ ≅ spin(3, 2) and of its singleton and (4-dimensional) zero-mass representations. For q a root of −1, these representations admit finite-dimensional unitary subrepresentations. It is pointed out that Uq(sp(4, ℝ)), unlike Uq(su(2, 2)), contains Uq(sl2) as a quantum subalgebra.