On the geometric quantization of contact manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2011.07.011zbMATH Open1251.32029arXiv0909.2023OpenAlexW1973693326MaRDI QIDQ644223FDOQ644223

Authors: Juan-Miguel Gracia 

Publication date: 3 November 2011

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Suppose that $(M,E)$ is a compact contact manifold, and that a compact Lie group $G$ acts on $M$ transverse to the contact distribution $E$. In an earlier paper, we defined a $G$-transversally elliptic Dirac operator $dirac$, constructed using a Hermitian metric $h$ and connection $abla$ on the symplectic vector bundle $EightarrowM$, whose equivariant index is well-defined as a generalized function on $G$, and gave a formula for its index. By analogy with the geometric quantization of symplectic manifolds, the $mathbb{Z}_2$-graded Hilbert space $Q(M)=kerdiracopluskerdira{c}^{\ast }$ can be interpreted as the "quantization" of the contact manifold $(M,E)$; the character of the corresponding virtual $G$-representation is then given by the equivariant index of $dirac$. By defining contact analogues of the algebra of observables, pre-quantum line bundle and polarization, we further extend the analogy by giving a contact version of the Kostant-Souriau approach to quantization, and discussing the extent to which this approach is reproduced by the index-theoretic method.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2023

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zbMATH Keywords

contact manifoldsgeometric quantizationtransversally elliptic operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) CR structures, CR operators, and generalizations (32V05) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Geometric quantization (53D50)

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