%0 Journal Article %T Non--Minimal $q$--Deformations and Orthogonal Symmetries: $U_q$(SO(5)) Example %A B. Abdesselam %A D. Arnaudon %A A. Chakrabarti %J Mathematics %D 1995 %I arXiv %X Non--minimal $q$-deformations are defined. Their role in the explicit construction of the matrix elements of the generators of ${\cal U}_{q}(SO(5))$ on suitably parametrized bases are exhibited. The implications are discussed. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/q-alg/9509011v1