New Universal Deformation Formulas for deformation quantization

Publication date 13 February 2018

Abstract: Universal Deformation Formulas (UDFs) for the deformation of associative algebras play a key role in deformation quantization. Here we present examples for certain classes of infinitesimals. A basic representable 2-cocycle

F

of an associative algebra

m a t h c a l A

is one for which there exist commuting derivations

D, d o t s, D_{n}

of

m a t h c a l A

such that

F = s u m_{i j} a_{i j} D_{i} s m i l e D_{j}

, where the

a_{i j}

are central elements of

m a t h c a l A

. When

m a t h c a l A

is defined over the rationals, there is a natural definition of the exponential of such a cocycle. With this

e x p h b a r F

defines a formal one-parameter family of deformations of

m a t h c a l A

, where

h b a r

is a deformation parameter. The rational quantization of smooth functions on a smooth manifold using a bivector field as an infinitesimal deformation is a special case.

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