Background Cohomology and Symplectic Reduction

Abstract

We consider a Hamiltonian action of a compact Lie group $G$ on a complete \ka manifold $M$ with a proper moment map. In a previous paper, we defined a regularized version of the Dolbeault cohomology of a $G$-equivariant holomorphic vector bundle, called the background cohomology. In this paper, we show that the background cohomology of a prequantum line bundle over $M$ `commutes with reduction', i.e. the invariant part of the background cohomology is isomorphic to the usual Dolbeault cohomology of the symplectic reduction.

12 pages, minor misprints corrected