Geometric quantization of vector bundles and the correspondence with deformation quantization (Q5940546)

The starting point of present paper is the author's remark that: ''quantization is \textit{only} a procedure for constructing an algebra. Since the algebra of continuous (or smooth) functions contains only the information of the point-set (or differential) topology of a space, this is merely the quantization of topology. It would be desirable to extend quantization to a theory of quantization of \textit{geometry}. Beyond topology, vector bundles are arguably the second most fundamental structure in geometry, so a plausible first step towards a theory of quantizing geometry would be a theory of quantizing vector bundles'' (from the Introduction). A fist part of this theory appears in \textit{E. Hawkins} [Commun. Math. Phys. 202, 517-546 (1999; Zbl 0977.53079)] where a definition of vector bundle quantization and a procedure for quantizing the equivariant vector bundles over coadjoint orbits of compact, semisimple Lie groups are presented. The paper under review is a continuation of the cited paper and contains a procedure for quantizing arbitrary smooth vector bundles over compact Kähler manifolds. The construction only depends on the structures used to quantize the manifold, the vector bundle itself and a connection on the vector bundle.