A formality theorem for Poisson manifolds (Q1431313): Difference between revisions

The standard Formality Theorem, which is a source of a proof of the Kontsevich' result on deformation quantization of Poisson structures, relates differentiable Hochschild cochains for the associative algebra \(C^\infty(M)\) of smooth functions on a manifold \(M\) with its Hochschild cohomology, i.e. multivector fields on \(M\). This relation is a homomorphism `up to homotopy' of graded Lie algebras: the Hochschild cochains \(\mathfrak g_2\) with the Gerstenhaber bracket on one hand and the multivector fields \(\mathfrak g_1\) with the Schouten bracket on the other. The authors extend this result assuming that \((M,\pi)\) is a Poisson manifold. This puts a deformed associative algebra structure on \(C^\infty(M)[[\hbar]]\) given by a star-product \(*\) associated with \(\pi\) and defines deformed complexes: \((\mathfrak g_2[[\hbar]],b_*)\) with the deformed Hochschild differential associated with the deformed associative structure \(*\), and \((\mathfrak g_1[[\hbar]],\hbar\partial_\pi)\) with the Poisson cohomology differential \(\partial_\pi\). A version of the Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg result states that these complexes are quasi-isomorphic. The main result in the paper is a formality theorem for these two differential graded Lie algebras. In fact, as the Gerstenhaber bracket with the cup-product can be extended to a homotopy Gerstenhaber algebra, the required homomorphism can be chosen even Gerstenhaber `up to homotopy'. The proof follows the ideas of \textit{D.~Tamarkin} [Another proof of M. Kontsevich formality theorem, math.QA/9803025] and makes use of the Etingof-Kazhdan's results on dequantization and quantization of Lie bialgebras [\textit{P. Etingof} and \textit{D. Kazhdan}, Sel. Math., New Ser. 4, No. 2, 213--231, 233--269 (1998; Zbl 0915.17009)].