Natural and projectively equivariant quantizations by means of Cartan connections (Q2571660)

The existence of a natural and projectively equivariant quantization in the sense of Lecomte was proved recently by M. Bordemann, using the framework of Thomas-Whitehead connections. The authors give a new proof of existence using the notion of Cartan projective connections and obtain an explicit formula in terms of these connections. The method yields the existence of a projectively equivariant quantization if and only if an \(\text{sl}(m+1,\mathbb R)\)-equivariant quantization exists in the flat situation, thus solving one of the problems left open by M. Bordemann.