Bernstein polynomials, Bergman kernels and toric Kähler varieties

DOI10.4310/JSG.2009.V7.N2.A3MaRDI QIDQ1027137zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Steve Zelditch

Publication date 30 June 2009

Published in The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2879

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionsBergman-Szegö kernelsBernstein polynomialsDedekind-Riemann sumsDelzant polytopetoric varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Kähler manifolds (32Q15)

Abstract: It does not seem to have been observed previously that the classical Bernstein polynomials $B_N(f)(x)$ are closely related to the Bergman-Szego kernels $P{i}_N$ for the Fubini-Study metric on $C{P}^1$: $B_N(f)(x)$ is the Berezin symbol of the Toeplitz operator $P{i}_{N}f(N^{-1}{D}_{heta})$. The relation suggests a generalization of Bernstein polynomials to any toric Kahler variety and Delzant polytope $P$. When $f$ is smooth, $B_N(f)(x)$ admits a complete asymptotic expansion. Integrating it over $P$ gives a complete asymptotic expansion for Dedekind-Riemann sums of smooth functions over lattice points in $NP$ related to Euler-MacLaurin sum formulae of Guillemin-Sternberg and others.

Review text

The author first observes that the classical Bernstein polynomials \[ B_{N}(f)(x)=\sum_{j=0}^{N}\binom{N}{j}f\left( \frac{j}{N}\right) x^{j}(1-x)^{N-j} \] of a smooth function \(f\in C^{\infty}([0,1])\) and their asymptotic expansion \[ B_{N}(f)(x)\sim\sum_{\mu=0}^{\infty}L_{\mu}f(x)N^{-\mu} \] (where \(L_{\mu}=L_{\mu}\left( x,\frac{\text{d}}{\text{d} x}\right) \) are certain polynomial differential operators), are closely related to the Bergman-Szegö kernels for the Fubini-Study metric on the \(N\)-th powers \(\mathcal{O}(N)\) of the hyperplane line bundle \(\mathcal{O} (1)\rightarrow\mathbb{CP}^{1}\). This holds also for functions \(f\) of \(m\) variables over the cube, with \(\mathbb{CP}^{1}\) replaced by \(\mathbb{CP}^{m}\). The paper generalizes this picture to a toric projective Kähler variety \(M\) and a Delzant polytope \(P\). Generalized Bernstein polynomial approximations \(B_{h^{N}}\) are defined and studied for \(f\in C(P)\), with respect to a Hermitian metric \(h\) on a line bundle \(L\rightarrow M\). A generalization of the asymptotic expansion of Bernstein polynomials is proved, as well as an asymptotic expansion for Dedekind-Riemann sums.

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