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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 dr/rdr/r type singularities near the boundary r=0r=0 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 Rd\mathbb{R}^d to an arbitrary smooth manifold.

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@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}
}
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