Strict quantizations of almost Poisson manifolds (Q2575355)

A smooth manifold \(M\) equipped with a contravariant alternating 2-tensor field \(\Pi\in\Gamma( \wedge^{2}TM) \), which then defines a skew-symmetric bi-derivation \(\{ f,g\} :=\Pi( df,dg) \) on \(C^{\infty}( M) \), is called an almost Poisson manifold, and it is called a Poisson manifold if the bracket \(\{\;,\;\} \) also satisfies the Jacobi identity. In this paper, the author shows that for any almost Poisson manifold \(M\), there exists a faithful strict quantization, which is a family of injective linear maps \(\pi_{\hbar}:C_{c}^{\infty}( M) \to\mathcal{A}_{\hbar}\) for a continuous field of C*-algebras \(\mathcal{A}_{\hbar}\) with \(\hbar\in[ 0,1] \) such that (i) \(\pi_{0}\) is the inclusion of \(C_{c}^{\infty}( M) \) into \(\mathcal{A}_{0}=C_{0}( M) \), (ii) \(\pi_{\hbar}( f) \) is a continuous section for each \(f\in C_{c}^{\infty}( M) \), (iii) \(\lim_{\hbar\to0}\| \frac{1}{i\hbar}[ \pi_{\hbar}( f) ,\pi_{\hbar}( g) ] -\pi_{\hbar}( \{ f,g\} ) \| =0\) for all \(f,g\in C_{c}^{\infty}( M) \). It is also shown that the construction of such a faithful strict quantization is equivariant in the sense that if a Lie group \(G\) acts on \(M\) preserving the bracket \(\{\;,\;\} \) and \(M\) has a \(G\)-invariant Riemannian metric, then the strict quantization is \(G\)-equivariant.