Degeneration of Kähler structures and half-form quantization of toric varieties

DOI10.4310/JSG.2013.V11.N4.A4MaRDI QIDQ2444969zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors William D. Kirwin, José M. Mourão, João P. Nunes

Publication date 11 April 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3363, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jsg/1384783393

zbMATH Keywords

half-form quantizationKähler structuretoric manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kähler manifolds (32Q15) Geometric quantization (53D50)

Abstract: We study the half-form Kaehler quantization of a smooth symplectic toric manifold $(X,omega)$, such that $[omega/2pi]-c_1(X)/2in{H}^2(X,mathbbZ)$ and is nonnegative. We define the half-form corrected quantization of $(X,omega)$ to be given by holomorphic sections of a certain hermitian line bundle $LightarrowX$ with Chern class $[omega/2pi]-c_1(X)/2$. These sections then correspond to integral points of a "corrected" polytope $P_L$ with integral vertices. For a suitably translated moment polytope $P_X$ for $(X,omega)$, we have that $P_{L}subset{P}_X$ is obtained from $P_X$ by a one-half inward-pointing normal shift along the boundary. We use our results on the Kaehler quantization to motivate a definition of half-form corrected quantization in the singular real toric polarization. Using families of complex structures studied in [Baier-Florentino-Mourao-Nunes:arXiv/0806.0606], which include the degeneration of Kaehler polarizations to the vertical polarization, we show that, under this degeneration, the half-form corrected $L^2$-normalized monomial holomorphic sections converge to Dirac-delta-distributional sections supported on the fibers over the integral points of $P_L$, which correspond to corrected Bohr-Sommerfeld fibers. This result and the limit of the corrected connection, with curvature singularities along the boundary of $P_X$, justifies the direct definition we give for the corrected quantization in the singular real toric polarization. We show that the space of quantum states for this definition coincides with the space obtained via degeneration of the K"ahler quantization. We also show that the BKS pairing between Kaehler polarizations is not unitary in general. On the other hand, the unitary connection induced by this pairing is flat.

Review text

Let \(X\) be a compact toric manifold endowed with a non-negative symplectic form \(\omega \) satisfying \(\frac{[\omega ]}{2\pi }-\frac{c_1(X)}{2}\in H^2(X,\mathbb{Z})\). The present paper is devoted to half-form Kähler quantization of the pair \((X, \omega )\). The half-form correction ensures a good behavior of the \(L^2\)-normalized sections in the limit of degenerating complex structure and this is in agreement with some previous examples: finite-dimensional vector spaces and abelian varieties. One of the primary motivation for including the half-form quantization is that it allows for a canonical pairing between quantizations associated to different complex structures. This pairing is known as the Blattner-Konstant-Sternberg (BKS) pairing. For the present framework it is obtained that the BKS pairing between Kähler polarizations is not unitary in general and that the unitary connection induced by this pairing is flat.

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