Group field theory on quantum groups

Abstract: We introduce the framework of Hopf algebra field theory (HAFT) which generalizes the notion of group field theory to the quantum group (Hopf algebra) case. We focus in particular on the 3d case and show how the HAFT we considered is topological. The highlight of the construction is the notion of plane-wave which leads, in the specific example of SUq (2) with q real, to a discretization of the Euclidian BF action with a negative cosmological constant. This work can be viewed as the generalization of the seminal work by Baratin and Oriti: we have a (non-commutative) formulation of simplicial 3d gravity in the presence of a non-zero cosmological constant.