Hochschild cohomology of the Weyl algebra and traces in deformation quantization (Q556468)

The authors obtain an explicit expression for the canonical trace in deformation quantization of symplectic manifolds. Let \(M\) be a symplectic manifold. Fedosov's and Nest and Tsygan's works give explicit formulas for the trace in the case of the constant function 1 and prove the index theorem for \(M\). The purpose of this paper is to generalize these results by using a noncommutative version of Fedosov's construction. The authors first give a formula for a cocycle generating the Hochschild cohomology of the Weyl algebra. The main result of the paper is then proved. Interesting formulas are finally obtained for the trace on general functions on \(M\).