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What is a double star-product?

Quantum Algebra 2026-05-19 v4 Mathematical Physics math.MP Rings and Algebras Representation Theory

Abstract

Double Poisson brackets, introduced by M. Van den Bergh in 2004, are noncommutative analogs of the usual Poisson brackets in the sense of the Kontsevich-Rosenberg principle: they induce Poisson structures on the space of NN-dimensional representations RepN(A)\operatorname{Rep}_N(A) of an associative algebra AA for any NN. The problem of deformation quantization of double Poisson brackets was raised by D. Calaque in 2010, and had remained open since then. In this paper, we address this problem by answering the question in the title. We present a structure on AA that induces a star-product under the representation functor and, therefore, according to the Kontsevich-Rosenberg principle, can be viewed as an analog of star-products in noncommutative geometry. We also provide an explicit example for A=kx1,,xdA=\Bbbk\langle x_1,\ldots,x_d\rangle and prove a double formality theorem in this case. Along the way, we invert the Kontsevich-Rosenberg principle by introducing a notion of double algebra over an arbitrary operad.

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@article{arxiv.2506.00699,
  title  = {What is a double star-product?},
  author = {Nikita Safonkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.00699},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

v4: Removed former Section 6.1.1 (to appear as a separate paper)

R2 v1 2026-07-01T02:52:35.927Z