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The characteristic classes of Morita equivalent star products on symplectic manifolds

Quantum Algebra 2009-11-07 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we give a complete characterization of Morita equivalent star products on symplectic manifolds in terms of their characteristic classes: two star products \star and \star' on (M,ω)(M,\omega) are Morita equivalent if and only if there exists a symplectomorphism ψ:MM\psi:M\longrightarrow M such that the relative class t(,ψ())t(\star,\psi^*(\star')) is 2π\im2 \pi \im-integral. For star products on cotangent bundles, we show that this integrality condition is related to Dirac's quantization condition for magnetic charges.

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@article{arxiv.math/0106178,
  title  = {The characteristic classes of Morita equivalent star products on symplectic manifolds},
  author = {Henrique Bursztyn and Stefan Waldmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0106178},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

22 pages. A few corrections made to Sections 3.2 and 3.3