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 of Laurent Schwartz which is smooth in the deformation parameter . The Taylor expansion in 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
25 pages; Author names corrected