Completely positive inner products and strong Morita equivalence

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Abstract: We develop a general framework for the study of strong Morita equivalence in which C∗-algebras and hermitian star products on Poisson manifolds are treated in equal footing. We compare strong and ring-theoretic Morita equivalences in terms of their Picard groupoids for a certain class of unital ∗-algebras encompassing both examples. Within this class, we show that both notions of Morita equivalence induce the same equivalence relation but generally define different Picard groups. For star products, this difference is expressed geometrically in cohomological terms.


This paper unifies strong Morita equivalence and completely positive inner products in a general framework. Two types of structures are considered in this work: \(C^*\) algebras and Poisson manifolds equipped with Hermitian star products. The authors prove that strong and ring-theoretic Morita equivalence induce the same equivalence relation but in general different Picard groups. Finally, the authors consider star products and show how the difference mentioned above can be interpreted in this case via cohomological terms.











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