On the geometric quantization of contact manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2011.07.011MaRDI QIDQ644223zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 3 November 2011

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

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

contact manifolds geometric quantization transversally elliptic operators

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)

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

d i r a c

, constructed using a Hermitian metric

h

and connection

a b l a

on the symplectic vector bundle

E i g h t a r r o w M

, 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

m a t h b b Z_{2}

-graded Hilbert space

Q (M) = k e r d i r a c o p l u s k e r d i r a c^{*}

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

d i r a c

. 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.

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