Morita Equivalence of Fedosov Star Products and Deformed Hermitian Vector Bundles

Based on the usual Fedosov construction of star products for a symplectic manifold M, we give a simple geometric construction of a bimodule deformation for the sections of a vector bundle over M starting with a symplectic connection on M and a connection for E. In the case of a line bundle, this gives a Morita equivalence bimodule, and the relation between the characteristic classes of the Morita equivalent star products can be found very easily within this framework. Moreover, we also discuss the case of a Hermitian vector bundle and give a Fedosov construction of the deformation of the Hermitian fiber metric.     

Deformation Quantization of Hermitian Vector Bundles

Motivated by deformation quantization, we consider in this paper *-algebras over rings = (i), where is an ordered ring and I²=–1, and study the deformation theory of projective modules over these algebras carrying the additional structure of a (positive) -valued inner product. For A=C (M), M a manifold, these modules can be identified with Hermitian vector bundles E over M. We show that for a fixed Hermitian star product on M, these modules can always be deformed in a unique way, up to (isometric) equivalence. We observe that there is a natural bijection between the sets of equivalence classes of local Hermitian deformations of C (M) and ( (E)) and that the corresponding deformed algebras are formally Morita equivalent, an algebraic generalization of strong Morita equivalence of C ^*-algebras. We also discuss the semi-classical geometry arising from these deformations.     

Parametrizing Equivalence Classes of Invariant Star Products

Let (M,,) be a symplectic manifold endowed with a symplectic connection . Let Symp(M,) be the group of symplectic transformations of (M,) and Aff(M,) be the group of affine transformations of the affine manifold (M, ). In this Letter, we show that, for any subgroup G of Symp(M,) Aff(M,), the set of G-equivalence classes of G-invariant star products on (M,) is canonically parametrized by the set of sequences of elements belonging to the second de Rham cohomology space of the G-invariant de Rham complex on M.     

A New Invariant For G-Invariant Star Products

The purpose of this Letter is to propose an invariant for a G-invariant star product on a G-transitive symplectic manifold which remains invariant under the G-equivalence maps. This invariant is defined by using a quantum moment map which is a quantum analogue of the moment map on a Hamiltonian G-space. On S ² regarded as an SO(3) coadjoint orbit in , we give an example of this invariant for the canonical G-invariant star product. In this example, there arises a nonclassical term which depends only on a class of G-invariant star products.     

Oscillatory Integral Formulae for Left-invariant Star Products on a Class of Lie Groups

We use star representation geometric methods to obtain explicit oscillatory integral formulae for strongly invariant star products on Iwasawa subgroups AN of SU(1,n)     

On the Existence of Star Products on Quotient Spaces of Linear Hamiltonian Torus Actions

We discuss BFV deformation quantization (Bordemann et al. in A homological approach to singular reduction in deformation quantization, singularity theory, pp. 443–461. World Scientific, Hackensack, 2007) in the special case of a linear Hamiltonian torus action. In particular, we show that the Koszul complex on the moment map of an effective linear Hamiltonian torus action is acyclic. We rephrase the nonpositivity condition of Arms and Gotay (Adv Math 79(1):43–103, 1990) for linear Hamiltonian torus actions. It follows that reduced spaces of such actions admit continuous star products.      

A Remark on Nonequivalent Star Products via Reduction for CPn

In this Letter, we construct nonequivalent star products on CPⁿ by phase space reduction. It turns out that the nonequivalent star products occur very natural in the context of phase space reduction by deforming the momentum map of the U(1)-action on Cⁿ⁺¹\{0}; into a quantum momentum map and the corresponding momentum value into a quantum momentum value such that the level set, i.e. the constraint surface, of the quantum momentum map coincides with the classical one. All equivalence classes of star products on CPⁿ are obtained by this construction.     

Invariant Star Products on <Emphasis Type="Italic">S</Emphasis><Superscript>2</Superscript> and the Canonical Trace

We calculate the canonical trace and use the Fedosov–Nest–Tsygan index theorem to obtain the characteristic class for a star product on S ². We show how, for this simple example, it is possible to extract the relevant information needed to use the Fedosov–Nest–Tsygan index theorem from a local calculation.This revised version was published online in March 2005 with corrections to the cover date.