Geometric quantization of \(b\)-symplectic manifolds (Q2022192)

A \(b\)-symplectic or log symplectic structure \((M, \omega )\) consists in a manifold \(M\) endowed with a ``symplectic form'' \(\omega \) allowed to have a pole along a hypersurface \(Z\subset M\). Firstly, the authors construct a compact manifold \(M_{\varepsilon }\) with boundary, by cutting near the hypersurface \(Z\), and the boundary is diffeomorphic to two copies of \(Z\). If \(L\rightarrow M\) is a prequantum line bundle over \(M\) then the Dolbeault-Dirac operator is Fredholm and its index is independent of the cutting. A main result is that this Fredholm index equals the Fredholm index of a \(\mathrm{Spin} ^c\)-Dirac operator. A conjecture of type ``quantization commutes with reduction'' is carefully studied.