Projectively equivariant symbol calculus

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Abstract: The spaces of linear differential operators on mathbbRn acting on tensor densities of degree lambda and the space of functions on T∗mathbbRn which are polynomial on the fibers are not isomorphic as modules over the Lie algebra Vect(mathbbRn) of vector fields on mathbbRn. However, these modules are isomorphic as sl(n+1,mathbbR)-modules where sl(n+1,mathbbR)subsetVect(mathbbRn) is the Lie algebra of infinitesimal projective transformations. In addition, such an sln+1-equivariant bijection is unique (up to normalization). This leads to a notion of projectively equivariant quantization and symbol calculus for a manifold endowed with a (flat) projective structure. We apply the sln+1-equivariant symbol map to study the Vect(M)-modules of linear differential operators acting on tensor densities, for an arbitrary manifold M.





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