A Covariant Poisson Deformation Quantization with Separation of Variables up to the Third Order

We give a simple formula for the operator C ₃ of the standard deformation quantization with separation of variables on a Kähler manifold M. Unlike C ₁ and C ₂, this operator cannot be expressed in terms of the Kähler–Poisson tensor on M. We modify C ₃ to obtain a covariant deformation quantization with separation of variables up to the third order which is expressed in terms of the Poisson tensor on M and can thus be defined on an arbitrary complex manifold endowed with a Poisson bivector field of type (1,1).