Logarithms and deformation quantization
Quantum Algebra
2014-01-15 v1
Abstract
We prove the statement/conjecture of M. Kontsevich on the existence of the logarithmic formality morphism. This question was open since 1999, and the main obstacle was the presence of type singularities near the boundary in the integrals over compactified configuration spaces. The novelty of our approach is the use of local torus actions on configuration spaces of points in the upper half-plane. It gives rise to a version of Stokes' formula for differential forms with singularities at the boundary which implies the formality property. We also show that the logarithmic formality morphism admits a globalization from to an arbitrary smooth manifold.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1401.3200,
title = {Logarithms and deformation quantization},
author = {Anton Alekseev and Carlo A. Rossi and Charles Torossian and Thomas Willwacher},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.3200},
year = {2014}
}