Non-formal star-exponential on contracted one-sheeted hyperboloids (Q2634786)

The authors study the possibilities to construct non-formal star-exponentials for star products that are geometrically more natural for the orbits of the group. They consider the one-sheeted hyperboloid orbits of \(\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})\), called two-dimensional anti-de Sitter space \(\mathrm{AdS}_2= \mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})/\mathrm{SO}(1,1)\). The star exponential is computed by using a non-formal \(\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{R})\) covariant star-product geometrically adapted to \(\mathrm{AdS}_2\) and looking for its natural contraction. The envisaged contraction of \(\mathrm{AdS}_2\) corresponds locally to the symmetric space \(M=\mathrm{SO}(1,1)\ltimes \mathbb{R}^2/\mathbb{R}\) called Poincaré coset. This curvature contraction is induced by the contraction of Lie algebras \(\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{R})\to \mathfrak{so}(1,1)\ltimes \mathbb{R}^2\). More precisely, the authors consider the non-formal \(\mathrm{SO}(1,1)\ltimes\mathbb{R}^2\)-invariant product \(\star^1_\theta \;(\theta\in\mathbb{R}_0) \) on \(L^2(M)\). Setting the Hilbert algebra \(A_\theta = (L^2(M),*^1_\theta)\) and denoting by \(\mathfrak{M}_b (A_\theta)\) its von Neumann algebra of bounded multipliers, the authors prove that the formal Lie map at \(t =1\), exponentiates to a weakly continuous group morphism: \(\mathcal{E}_{*^1_\theta}:\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})\to \mathfrak{M}_b (A_\theta)\). After a presentation of the geometric context, the explicit expression of \(\mathcal{E}_{*^1_\theta}\) on the generator F in some coordinate chart \(\Phi_k\) is directly computed in terms of Bessel functions, by constructing the spectral measure of the differential operator involved in the defining equation of the star-exponential. On another coordinate chart \(\Psi_k\) and with another star-product \(\sharp_\theta\), the star-exponential \(\mathcal{E}_{\sharp_\theta}\) is expressed in terms of the principal series representation \(\mathcal{P}^\theta\) associated with the \(\mathrm{AdS}_2\)-orbit. Then, the authors relate both star-exponentials, \(\mathcal{E}_{*^1_\theta}\) expressed with Bessel functions and \(\mathcal{E}_{\sharp_{\theta}}\), expressed with the principal series representation, obtaining an intertwiner between the corresponding star-products. Three different methods are presented to obtain explicitly a unitary intertwining operator \(W\) between \(\sharp_\theta\) and \(\star^1_\theta\). In Section 6, the authors get a nice geometric interpretation of the corresponding two copies in terms of the global curvature contraction of \(\mathrm{AdS}_2\). As an application, they derive from the comparison of \(\mathcal{E}_{*^1_\theta} (e^{tF})\) and \(W(\mathcal{E}_{\sharp_\theta}(e^{tF}))\) a new identity on Bessel functions.