Natural star products on symplectic manifolds and quantum moment maps (Q1431318)

The natural class of star products defined in the paper includes Vey star product as studied by \textit{A. Lichnerowicz} in [Ann. Inst. Fourier 32, No. 1, 157--209 (1982; Zbl 0465.53025)], but also not Vey star products (as, for example, cotangent bundles or Kähler manifolds). In the symplectic context, these classes are parametrized in a covariant manner under diffeomorphisms in terms of a connection, a formal series of closed \(2 \)-forms and a formal series of symmetric tensors. Some invariance properties and necessary and sufficient conditions for the star products to have a quantum momentum map are also given. The authors also prove that \textit{O. Kravchenko's} sufficient condition [Compos. Math. 123, No. 2, 131--165 (2000; Zbl 0992.53065)] for a momentum map for a \textit{B. Fedosov} star product [Deformation quantization and index theory. Mathematical Topics. 9. Berlin: Akademie Verlag (1996; Zbl 0867.58061)] is also necessary.