On <i>q</i>-Deformed Calculus in Quantum Geometry

Abstract

The relation between noncommutative (or quantum) geometry and themathematics of spacesis in many ways similar to the relation between quantum physicsand classical physics. One moves from the commutative algebra of functions on a space (or a commutative algebra of classical observable in classical physics) to a noncommutative algebra representing a noncommutative space (or a noncommutative algebra of quantum observables in quantum physics). The object of this paper is to study the basic rules governing q -calculus as compared with the classical Newton-Leibnitz calculus.