Quantization of forms on the cotangent bundle

DOI10.1007/S002200050679MaRDI QIDQ1809228zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors F. F. Voronov

Publication date 16 December 1999

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9809130

zbMATH Keywords

formsGauss-Bonnet theoremPoisson manifoldquantizationsymbols of Laplacians on formsWeitzenböck identities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Symplectic geometry, contact geometry (53D99) Partial differential equations on manifolds; differential operators (58J99)

Abstract: We consider the following construction of quantization. For a Riemannian manifold $M$ the space of forms on $T^{\ast }M$ is made into a space of (full) symbols of operators acting on forms on $M$. This gives rise to the composition of symbols, which is a deformation of the (``super)commutative multiplication of forms. The symbol calculus is exact for differential operators and the symbols that are polynomial in momenta. We calculate the symbols of natural Laplacians. (Some nice Weitzenb"ock like identities appear here.) Formulas for the traces corresponding to natural gradings of $Omega(T^{\ast }M)$ are established. Using these formulas, we give a simple direct proof of the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern Theorem. We discuss these results in the connection of a general question of the quantization of forms on a Poisson manifold.

Review text

The author considers the following construction of quantization. Let \( M \) be a Riemannian manifold. Then the space of forms on \( T ^\ast M \) is identified with the space of symbols of operators acting on forms on \( M. \) This gives rise to the composition of symbols and this is a deformation of the ``super commutative multiplication of forms. He computes the symbols of the natural Laplacians on forms, their corresponding traces and also come nice Weitzenböck identities. Using these results, he gives a new proof of the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem. The paper can be viewed as a first step in the understanding of quantization of forms on a Poisson manifold.

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