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Smooth *-algebras

Quantum Algebra 2007-05-23 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Looking for the universal covering of the smooth non-commutative torus leads to a curve of associative multiplications on the space \CalOM(R2n)\CalOC(R2n)\Cal O_M'(\Bbb R^{2n})\cong \Cal O_C(\Bbb R^{2n}) of Laurent Schwartz which is smooth in the deformation parameter \hbar. The Taylor expansion in \hbar leads to the formal Moyal star product. The non-commutative torus and this version of the Heisenberg plane are examples of smooth *-algebras: smooth in the sense of having many derivations. A tentative definition of this concept is given.

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@article{arxiv.math/0106150,
  title  = {Smooth *-algebras},
  author = {Michel Dubois-Violette and Andreas Kriegl and Yoshiaki Maeda and Peter W. Michor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0106150},
  year   = {2007}
}

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25 pages; Author names corrected