A groupoid approach to pseudodifferential calculi

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Abstract: We give an algebraic/geometric characterization of the classical pseudodifferential operators on a smooth manifold in terms of the tangent groupoid and its natural mathbbRimes+-action. Specifically, we show that a properly supported semiregular distribution on MimesM is the Schwartz kernel of a classical pseudodifferential operator if and only if it extends to a smooth family of distributions on the range fibres of the tangent groupoid which is homogeneous for the mathbbRimes+-action modulo smooth functions. Moreover, we show that the basic properties of pseudodifferential operators can be proven directly from this characterization. Finally, we show that with the appropriate generalization of the tangent bundle, the same definition applies without change to define pseudodifferential calculi on arbitrary filtered manifolds, in particular the Heisenberg calculus.


In these last years the theory of pseudodifferential operators has been reconsidered in the framework of the groupoids, see for example \textit{V. Nistor} et al. [Pac. J. Math. 189, No. 1, 117--152 (1999; Zbl 0940.58014)] and the recent contribution of \textit{C. Debord} et al. [Ann. Inst. Fourier 65, No. 4, 1799--1880 (2015; Zbl 1377.58025)]. In the present paper the authors propose a new approach, based on the kernel representation of the operators, under a suitable homogeneity assumption. As a particular case, they recapture classical pseudodifferential operators on compact manifolds and their properties. The presentation is addressed to a large audience, clarifying the connections with the other approaches.



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