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Toeplitz Quantization on Fock Space

Functional Analysis 2017-08-25 v3

Abstract

For Toeplitz operators Tf(t)T_f^{(t)} acting on the weighted Fock space Ht2H_t^2, we consider the semi-commutator Tf(t)Tg(t)Tfg(t)T_f^{(t)}T_g^{(t)}-T_{fg}^{(t)}, where t>0t>0 is a certain weight parameter that may be interpreted as Planck's constant \hbar in Rieffel's deformation quantization. In particular, we are interested in the semi-classical limit \tag{*}\lim\limits_{t\to 0}\|T_f^{(t)}T_g^{(t)}-T_{fg}^{(t)}\|_t. It is well-known that Tf(t)Tg(t)Tfg(t)t\|T_f^{(t)}T_g^{(t)}-T_{fg}^{(t)}\|_t tends to 00 under certain smoothness assumptions imposed on ff and gg. This result was extended to f,gBUC(Cn)f,g \in \mathrm{BUC}(\mathbb{C}^n) in a recent paper by Bauer and Coburn. We now further generalize this result to (not necessarily bounded) uniformly continuous functions and symbols in the algebra VMOL\mathrm{VMO} \cap L^{\infty} of bounded functions having vanishing mean oscillation on Cn\mathbb{C}^n. Our approach is based on the algebraic identity Tf(t)Tg(t)Tfg(t)=(Hfˉ(t))Hg(t)T_f^{(t)}T_g^{(t)}-T_{fg}^{(t)}=-(H_{\bar{f}}^{(t)})^*H_g^{(t)}, where Hg(t)H_g^{(t)} denotes the Hankel operator corresponding to the symbol gg, and norm estimates in terms of the (weighted) heat transform. As a consequence, only ff (or likewise only gg) has to be contained in one of the above classes for ()(*) to vanish. For gg we only have to impose lim supt0Hg(t)t<\limsup_{t \to 0}\|H_g^{(t)}\|_t<\infty, e.g. gL(Cn)g \in L^{\infty}(\mathbb{C}^n). We prove that the set of all symbols fL(Cn)f\in L^{\infty}(\mathbb{C}^n) with the property that limt0Tf(t)Tg(t)Tfg(t)t=limt0Tg(t)Tf(t)Tgf(t)t=0\lim_{t \rightarrow 0}\|T^{(t)}_fT^{(t)}_g-T^{(t)}_{fg}\|_t=\lim_{t\to 0}\|T_g^{(t)}T_f^{(t)}-T_{gf}^{(t)}\|_t=0 for all gL(Cn)g\in L^{\infty}(\mathbb{C}^n) coincides with VMOL\mathrm{VMO}\cap L^{\infty}. Additionally, we show that limt0Tf(t)t=f\lim_{t\to 0}\|T_f^{(t)}\|_t=\|f\|_{\infty} holds for all fL(Cn)f\in L^{\infty}(\mathbb{C}^n). Finally, we present new examples, including bounded smooth functions, where ()(*) does not vanish.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1704.05652,
  title  = {Toeplitz Quantization on Fock Space},
  author = {Wolfram Bauer and Lewis Coburn and Raffael Hagger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.05652},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

22 pages; added some additional material; simplified some arguments

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