Equivariant Deformation Quantization for the Cotangent Bundle of a Flag Manifold

Abstract

Let $\XR$ be a (generalized) flag manifold of a non-compact real semisimple Lie group $\GR$, where $\XR$ and $\GR$ have complexifications X and G. We investigate the problem of constructing a graded star product on $Pol(T^*\XR)$ which corresponds to a $\GR$-equivariant quantization of symbols into smooth differential operators acting on half-densities on $\XR$. We show that any solution is algebraic in that it restricts to a G-equivariant graded star product star on the algebraic part R of $Pol(T^*\XR)$. We construct, when R is generated by the momentum functions ${\mu }^x$ for G, a preferred choice of star where ${\mu }^x\star \varphi$ has the form $μ^xϕ+\half\{μ^x,ϕ\}t+Λ^x(ϕ)t^2$. Here ${\Lambda }^x$ are operators on R which are not differential in the known examples and so ${\mu }^x\star \varphi$ is not local in $\varphi$. R acquires an invariant positive definite inner product compatible with its grading. The completion of R is a new Fock space type model of the unitary representation of G on $L^2$ half-densities on X.

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