Singular projective varieties and quantization
Motivated by the problem of quantizing moduli spaces, the author suggests a possible approach to quantizing algebraic varieties. The paper does not do this for the general case of singular varieties, it only discusses the path from compact quantizable Kähler manifolds to projective varieties. The first section describes the Berezin-Toeplitz quantization of a Kähler manifold. It is shown how this quantization gives rise to a \(*\)-product on the manifold. Using the Kodaira embedding theorem, one can embed a quantizable Kähler manifold in a projective space. This is done using a sufficiently large power of the line bundle of the quantization (which is positive). Section 2 gives a brief introduction to projective algebraic varieties. Then it is shown that the direct sum of the Hilbert spaces of the quantization, over all levels of quantization, is algebraically isomorphic to the projective coordinate ring of functions of the variety obtained by embedding the Kähler manifold in a projective space. This isomorphism, in general, does not relate the Hilbert space metric to some canonical metric (e.g. Fubini-Study) on the corresponding algebraic variety. Singularities are treated in more detail in section 3, and in particular the Zariski tangent and cotangent spaces are defined. The last section, important in the context of moduli spaces, describes some basic facts from Mumford's geometric invariant theory. The notions of good and geometric quotients are introduced and the relation with the symplectic quotient is described. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0970.00023].
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