Existence of natural and projectively equivariant quantizations (Q2381854)

The author studies the existence of natural and projectively quantizations for differential operators acting between order 1 vector bundles over a smooth manifold \(M\). The notion of natural and projectively equivariant quantization they define is a generalization of the notion of \(sl_{m+1}\)-invariant quantization over \(\mathbb{R}^m\). The method relies on \textit{M. Bordemann}'s proof of existence of natural and projectively equivariant quantizations for differential operators acting between densities [``Sur l'existenece d'une prescription d'ordre naturelle projectivement invariant'', \url{arXiv: mathDG/0208171}]. The method used by S. Hansoul consists in translating the problem from the original bundle \(M\) to a manifold \(\tilde{M}\), which is a principal bundle over \(M\) with additional dimension. In order to achieve this construction, the author shows how to construct representations of \({\text{GL}}(m+1,\mathbb{R})\) from representations of \({\text{GL}}(m,\mathbb{R})\). Use is made of the Thomas-Whitehead approach of projective structures. The author constructs a Casimir operator depending on a projective Cartan connection. A scalar parameter is attached to every space of differential operators and the existence of quantization is proved, except when the parameter belongs to a discrete set of critical values. The result is not optimal [\textit{P. Mathonet} and \textit{F. Radoux}, Lett. Math. Phys. 72, 183--196 (2005; Zbl 1091.53006)]. Some open questions related to natural and equivariant quantizations are also mentioned.