%0 Journal Article %T Possible contractions of quantum orthogonal groups %A N. A. Gromov %A I. V. Kostyakov %A V. V. Kuratov %J Mathematics %D 2001 %I arXiv %R 10.1134/1.1432910 %X Possible contractions of quantum orthogonal groups which correspond to different choices of primitive elements of Hopf algebra are considered and all allowed contractions in Cayley--Klein scheme are obtained. Quantum deformations of kinematical groups have been investigated and have shown that quantum analog of (complex) Galilei group G(1,3) do not exist in our scheme. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0102071v1