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Some Remarks on {$\mathfrak g$}-invariant Fedosov Star Products and Quantum Momentum Mappings

Quantum Algebra 2007-05-23 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

In these notes we consider the usual Fedosov star product on a symplectic manifold (M,ω)(M,\omega) emanating from the fibrewise Weyl product \circ, a symplectic torsion free connection \nabla on M, a formal series ΩνZdR2(M)[[ν]]\Omega \in \nu Z^2_{\rm\tiny dR}(M)[[\nu]] of closed two-forms on M and a certain formal series s of symmetric contravariant tensor fields on M. For a given symplectic vector field X on M we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the triple (,Ω,s)(\nabla,\Omega,s) determining the star product * on which the Lie derivative \LieX\Lie_X with respect to X is a derivation of *. Moreover, we also give additional conditions on which \LieX\Lie_X is even a quasi-inner derivation. Using these results we find necessary and sufficient criteria for a Fedosov star product to be g\mathfrak g-invariant and to admit a quantum Hamiltonian. Finally, supposing the existence of a quantum Hamiltonian, we present a cohomological condition on Ω\Omega that is equivalent to the existence of a quantum momentum mapping. In particular, our results show that the existence of a classical momentum mapping in general does not imply the existence of a quantum momentum mapping.

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@article{arxiv.math/0301101,
  title  = {Some Remarks on {$\mathfrak g$}-invariant Fedosov Star Products and Quantum Momentum Mappings},
  author = {Michael Frank Müller and Nikolai Neumaier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0301101},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

15 pages, one corollary and one definition added to Section 4, typos removed