A counterpart of the modular double for quantum superalgebra Uq(osp(1\2)) is constructed by means of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. We also construct the R-matrix operator acting in the corresponding representations, which is expressed via quantum dilogarithm.

We showed that there is a complete analogue of a representation of the quantum plane ℬq where \q\ = 1, with the classical ax+b group. We showed that the Fourier transform of the representation of ℬ-q$ on ℋ = L2(ℝ) has a limit (in the dual corepresentation) toward the Mellin transform of the unitary representation of the ax+b group, and furthermore the intertwiners of the tensor products representation has a limit toward the intertwiners of the Mellin transform of the classical ax+b representation. We also wrote explicitly the multiplicative unitary defining the quantum ax+b semigroup and showed that it defines the corepresentation that is dual to the representation of ℬq above, and also correspond precisely to the classical family of unitary representation of the ax+b group.

We give complete detail of the description of the GNS representation of the quantum plane A and its dual  as a von Neumann algebra. In particular, we obtain a rather surprising result that the multiplicative unitary W is manageable in this quantum semigroup context. We study the quantum double group construction introduced by Woronowicz, and using Baaj and Vaes' construction of the multiplicative unitary Wm, we give the GNS description of the quantum double D(A) which is equivalent to GLq+(2, ℝ). Furthermore, we study the fundamental corepresentation Tλ, t and its matrix coefficients, and show that it can be expressed by the b-hypergeometric function. We also study the regular corepresentation and representation induced by Wm and prove that the space of L2 functions on the quantum double decomposes into the continuous series representation of Uqq̃(gl(2, ℝ)) with the quantum dilogarithm {pipe}Sb(Q+2iα){pipe}2 as the Plancherel measure. Finally, we describe certain representation theoretic meaning of integral transforms involving the quantum dilogarithm function.

The construction of the Q-operator for twisted affine superalgebra Uq(C(2)(2)) is given. It is shown that the corresponding prefundamental representations give rise to evaluation modules some of which do not have a classical limit, which nevertheless appear to be a necessary part of fusion relations.

We prove that an isoparametric hypersurface with four principal curvatures and multiplicity pair (7,8) is either the one constructed by Ozeki and Takeuchi, or one of the two constructed by Ferus, Karcher, and Mu¨nzner. This completes the classification of isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres that ´E. Cartan initiated in the late 1930s.