Convergent star product algebras on `\(ax+b\)' (Q1402278)

The authors explicitly construct left-invariant, convergent star products on the Lie group \(G= \{x\to ax+b\); \(a,b\in \mathbb{R}\}\) of affine transformations of the real line. Using the fact that the group manifold can be identified with \(\mathbb R^2\), these star products on \(G\) are obtained by pulling back the Weyl-Moyal product (which can be defined in a convergent way on certain subspaces of \(C^\infty(\mathbb R^2)\) by means of the symplectic Fourier transform and the twisted convolution [cf. \textit{F. Hansen}, Rep. Math. Phys. 19, 361--381 (1984; Zbl 0571.46046) or \textit{J.-M. Maillard}, C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. I 298, 35--38 (1984; Zbl 0563.43006)]) with a map that is the combination of the Laplace transform \({\mathcal L}\) with a so-called twisting map \(\phi:\mathbb C \to \mathbb C\). Comparing with the techniques of formal deformation quantization, one sees that this is nothing but defining a star product that is isomorphic resp. equivalent to the Weyl-Moyal product via an `equivalence transformation' that is described by an integral operator of the form \(\text{id}_x\otimes ({\mathcal L}^{-1} \circ \phi^* \circ {\mathcal L})_p\) where \((x,p)\in \mathbb R^2\). By choosing \(\phi\) in a suitable way it can be achieved, that the outcome - in contrast to the Weyl-Moyal product -- is a \(G\)-invariant product which also means that the `equivalence transformation' is not a \(G\)-equivalence, i.e., does not commute with the action of \(G\). Using a further transformation that does not affect the \(G\)-invariance the authors give an example of a convergent star product that even contains non-tempered elements i.e. functions with exponential growth in the domain (for a similar discussion in the case of the Weyl-Moyal product see [\textit{H. Omori, Y. Maeda, N. Miyazaki, and A. Yoshioka}, RIMS Kokyuroku 1150, 128--132 (2000; Zbl 0968.53508)]). It seems interesting to answer the question whether the \(G\)-invariant convergent star products constructed in this paper yield differential formal star products by expanding them asymptotically in a formal power series.