Deformation quantization and the Baum-Connes conjecture

Details Deformation quantization and the Baum-Connes conjecture Deformation quantization and the Baum-Connes conjecture

2002-10-08

arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0210015v1

Physics

Mathematical Physics

21 pages

Scientific paper

10.1007/s00220-003-0838-0

Alternative titles of this paper would have been `Index theory without index' or `The Baum-Connes conjecture without Baum.' In 1989, Rieffel introduced an analytic version of deformation quantization based on the use of continuous fields of C*-algebras. We review how a wide variety of examples of such quantizations can be understood on the basis of a single lemma involving amenable groupoids. These include Weyl-Moyal quantization on manifolds, C*-algebras of Lie groups and Lie groupoids, and the E-theoretic version of the Baum-Connes conjecture for smooth groupoids as described by Connes in his book Noncommutative Geometry. Concerning the latter, we use a different semidirect product construction from Connes. This enables one to formulate the Baum-Connes conjecture in terms of twisted Weyl-Moyal quantization. The underlying mechanical system is a noncommutative desingularization of a stratified Poisson space, and the Baum-Connes conjecture actually suggests a strategy for quantizing such singular spaces.

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