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The goal of this paper is to introduce and study noncommutative Catalan numbers $C_n$ which belong to the free Laurent polynomial algebra in $n$ generators. Our noncommutative numbers admit interesting (commutative and noncommutative) specializations, one of them related to Garsia-Haiman $(q,t)$-versions, another -- to solving noncommutative quadratic equations. We also establish total positivity of the corresponding (noncommutative) Hankel matrices $H_m$ and introduce accompanying noncommutative binomial coefficients., 12 pages AM LaTex, a picture and proof of Lemma 3.6 are added, misprints corrected

The goal of this work is to provide an elementary construction of the canonical basis $\mathbf B(w)$ in each quantum Schubert cell~$U_q(w)$ and to establish its invariance under modified Lusztig's symmetries. To that effect, we obtain a direct characterization of the upper global basis $\mathbf B^{up}$ in terms of a suitable bilinear form and show that $\mathbf B(w)$ is contained in $\mathbf B^{up}$ and its large part is preserved by modified Lusztig's symmetries., AMSLaTeX, 32 pages,typos corrected

This paper aims to systematically study mystic reflection groups that emerged independently in the paper [Selecta Math. (N.S.) 14 (2009), 325-372, arXiv:0806.0867] by the authors and in the paper [Algebr. Represent. Theory 13 (2010), 127-158, arXiv:0806.3210] by Kirkman, Kuzmanovich and Zhang. A detailed analysis of this class of groups reveals that they are in a nontrivial correspondence with the complex reflection groups $G(m,p,n)$. We also prove that the group algebras of corresponding groups are isomorphic and classify all such groups up to isomorphism.

It is well known that central extensions of a group G correspond to 2-cocycles on G. Cocycles can be used to construct extensions of G-graded algebras via a version of the Drinfeld twist introduced by Majid. We show how 2-cocycles can be defined for an abstract monoidal category C, following Panaite, Staic and Van Oystaeyen. A braiding on C leads to analogues of Nichols algebras in C, and we explain how the recent work on twists of Nichols algebras by Andruskiewitsch, Fantino, Garcia and Vendramin fits in this context. Furthermore, we propose an approach to twisting the multiplication in braided doubles, which are a class of algebras with triangular decomposition over G. Braided doubles are not G-graded, but may be embedded in a double of a Nichols algebra, where a twist may be carried out if careful choices are made. This is a source of new algebras with triangular decomposition. As an example, we show how to twist the rational Cherednik algebra of the symmetric group by the cocycle arising from the Schur covering group, obtaining the spin Cherednik algebra introduced by Wang., 60 pages, LaTeX; v2: references added, misprints corrected

We construct rank 2 thick nondiscrete affine buildings associated with an arbitrary finite dihedral group., Comment: 40 pages, 10 figures

Cluster algebras were introduced by S. Fomin and A. Zelevinsky in math.RT/0104151; their study continued in math.RA/0208229, math.RT/0305434. This is a family of commutative rings designed to serve as an algebraic framework for the theory of total positivity and canonical bases in semisimple groups and their quantum analogs. In this paper we introduce and study quantum deformations of cluster algebras., Minor corrections; final version, to appear in Advances in Mathematics; 41 pages

We discuss double Poisson structures in sense of M. Van den Bergh on free associative algebras focusing on the case of quadratic Poisson brackets. We establish their relations with an associative version of Young-Baxter equations, we study a bi-hamiltonian property of the linear-quadratic pencil of the double Poisson structure and propose a classification of the quadratic double Poisson brackets in the case of the algebra with two free generators. Many new examples of quadratic double Poisson brackets are proposed., Comment: 19 pages, latex