On transversally elliptic operators and the quantization of manifolds with $f$-structure

Details On transversally elliptic operators and the quantization of manifolds with $f$-structure On transversally elliptic operators and the quantization of manifolds with $f$-structure

2011-01-30

arxiv.org/abs/1101.5831v2

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

31 pages

Scientific paper

10.1007/s00009-011-0168-y

An $f$-structure on a manifold $M$ is an endomorphism field $\phi\in\Gamma(M,\End(TM))$ such that $\phi^3+\phi=0$. Any $f$-structure $\phi$ determines an almost CR structure $E_{1,0}\subset T_\C M$ given by the $+i$-eigenbundle of $\phi$. Using a compatible metric $g$ and connection $\nabla$ on $M$, we construct an odd first-order differential operator $D$, acting on sections of $\S=\Lambda E_{0,1}^*$, whose principal symbol is of the type considered in arXiv:0810.0338. In the special case of a CR-integrable almost $\S$-structure, we show that when $\nabla$ is the generalized Tanaka-Webster connection of Lotta and Pastore, the operator $D$ is given by $D = \sqrt{2}(\dbbar+\dbbar^*)$, where $\dbbar$ is the tangential Cauchy-Riemann operator. We then describe two "quantizations" of manifolds with $f$-structure that reduce to familiar methods in symplectic geometry in the case that $\phi$ is a compatible almost complex structure, and to the contact quantization defined in \cite{F4} when $\phi$ comes from a contact metric structure. The first is an index-theoretic approach involving the operator $D$; for certain group actions $D$ will be transversally elliptic, and using the results in arXiv:0810.0338, we can give a Riemann-Roch type formula for its index. The second approach uses an analogue of the polarized sections of a prequantum line bundle, with a CR structure playing the role of a complex polarization.

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