Cyclic cocycles on deformation quantizations and higher index theorems (Q962140)

The authors construct a nontrivial cyclic cocycle on the Weyl algebra of a symplectic vector space. Using this cyclic cocycle they construct an explicit, local, quasi-isomorphism from the complex of differential forms on a symplectic manifold to the complex of cyclic cochains of any formal deformation quantization thereof. They give a new proof of Nest-Tsygan's algebraic higher index theorem by computing the pairing between such cyclic cocycles and the \(K\)-theory of the formal deformation quantization. Furthermore, they extend this approach to derive an algebraic higher index theorem on a symplectic orbifold. As an application, they obtain the analytic higher index theorem of Connes-Moscovici and its extension to orbifolds.