Deformation quantization for actions of \(\mathbb{Q}^d_p\) (Q491518)

The main goal of this paper is to continue the program initiated in earlier work of Bieliavsky and Gayral, which consists in extending Rieffel's approach to deformation for more general groups than \(\mathbb{R}^d\). In this first case, there were serious analytical difficulties underlying the non-commutativity of the group, even in the relatively simple situation of solvable simply connected real Lie groups. In the present work, the authors study the situation of abelian but non-Lie groups. More specifically, the object is a deformation theory of \(C^\ast\)-algebras endowed with an action of a finite-dimensional vector space over a non-Archimedean local field of characteristic different from 2. At the root of the construction is the \(p\)-adic version of the Weyl quantization.