Poisson bracket, deformed bracket and gauge group actions in Kontsevich deformation quantization

Kontsevich 图作用于Nambu-Poisson括号，IV. 当隐形的变得关键

Kontsevich graphs act on Nambu--Poisson brackets, IV. When the invisible becomes crucial

研究Kontsevich图对Nambu括号作用的拓扑数据生成，探讨高维中隐形图对解的影响

仿射Poisson括号下直到7阶的Kontsevich星积：Riemann zeta值在哪里？

Kontsevich's star-product up to order 7 for affine Poisson brackets: where are the Riemann zeta values?

该研究针对仿射Poisson括号下的Kontsevich星积，推导了到7阶的调和权重公式，验证其满足循环关系与结合律，发现Riemann zeta值因Jacobi恒等式的微分推论消失，得到仅含有理系数的简洁约化公式。

q-deformed Star Products and Moyal Brackets

The standard and anti-standard ordered operators acting on two-dimensional q-deformed phase space are shown to satisfy algebras which can be called W_\infty. q-star products and q-Moyal brackets corresponding to these algebras are constructed. Some applications like defining q-classical mechanics and q-path integrals are discussed.

On the Kontsevich $\star$-product associativity mechanism

The deformation quantization by Kontsevich [arXiv:q-alg/9709040] is a way to construct an associative noncommutative star-product $\star=\times+\hbar \{\ ,\ \}_{P}+\bar{o}(\hbar)$ in the algebra of formal power series in $\hbar$ on a given finite-dimensional affine Poisson manifold: here $\times$ is the usual multiplication, $\{\ ,\ \}_{P}\neq0$ is the Poisson bracket, and $\hbar$ is the deformation parameter. The product $\star$ is assembled at all powers $\hbar^{k\geq0}$ via summation over a certain set of weighted graphs with $k+2$ vertices; for each $k>0$, every such graph connects the two…

Cohomologie tangente et cup-produit pour la quantification de Kontsevich

On a flat manifold, M. Kontsevich's formality quasi-isomorphism is compatible with cup-products on tangent cohomology spaces, in the sense that its derivative at any formal Poisson 2-tensor induces an isomorphism of graded commutative algebras from Poisson cohomology space to Hochschild cohomology space relative to the associated deformed multiplication. We give here a detailed proof of this result, with signs and orientations precised.

Kontsevich图流在Nambu-行列式Poisson括号空间上的隐藏对称性

The hidden symmetry of Kontsevich's graph flows on the spaces of Nambu-determinant Poisson brackets

本文证明Kontsevich图流保持Nambu-行列式Poisson括号类，发现其演化在第二上同调中平凡，并揭示构造中隐藏的离散对称性。

The derived non-commutative Poisson bracket on Koszul Calabi-Yau algebras

Let $A$ be a Koszul (or more generally, $N$-Koszul) Calabi-Yau algebra. Inspired by the works of Kontsevich, Ginzburg and Van den Bergh, we show that there is a derived non-commutative Poisson structure on $A$, which induces a graded Lie algebra structure on the cyclic homology of $A$; moreover, we show that the Hochschild homology of $A$ is a Lie module over the cyclic homology and the Connes long exact sequence is in fact a sequence of Lie modules. Finally, we show that the Leibniz-Loday bracket associated to the derived non-commutative Poisson structure on $A$ is naturally mapped to the Ger…

Hamiltonian Reduction and the Construction of q-Deformed Extensions of the Virasoro Algebra

In this paper we employ the construction of Dirac bracket for the remaining current of $sl(2)_q$ deformed Kac-Moody algebra when constraints similar to those connecting the $sl(2)$-WZW model and the Liouville theory are imposed and show that it satisfy the q-Virasoro algebra proposed by Frenkel and Reshetikhin. The crucial assumption considered in our calculation is the existence of a classical Poisson bracket algebra induced, in a consistent manner by the correspondence principle, mapping the quantum generators into commuting objects of classical nature preserving their algebra.

什么是双星积？

What is a double star-product?

本文研究了双泊松括号的变形量子化问题，提出了一种在代数表示空间上诱导星积的结构，并给出了一个具体例子和双形式定理。

Classical and quantum q-deformed physical systems

On the basis of the non-commutative q-calculus, we investigate a q-deformation of the classical Poisson bracket in order to formulate a generalized q-deformed dynamics in the classical regime. The obtained q-deformed Poisson bracket appears invariant under the action of the q-symplectic group of transformations. In this framework we introduce the q-deformed Hamilton's equations and we derive the evolution equation for some simple q-deformed mechanical systems governed by a scalar potential dependent only on the coordinate variable. It appears that the q-deformed Hamiltonian, which is the gener…

Multiple zeta values in deformation quantization

Kontsevich's 1997 formula for the deformation quantization of Poisson brackets is a Feynman expansion involving volume integrals over moduli spaces of marked disks. We develop a systematic theory of integration on these moduli spaces via suitable algebras of polylogarithms, and use it to prove that Kontsevich's integrals can be expressed as integer-linear combinations of multiple zeta values. Our proof gives a concrete algorithm for calculating the integrals, which we have used to produce the first software package for the symbolic calculation of Kontsevich's formula.

A path integral approach to the Kontsevich quantization formula

We give a quantum field theory interpretation of Kontsevich's deformation quantization formula for Poisson manifolds. We show that it is given by the perturbative expansion of the path integral of a simple topological bosonic open string theory. Its Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization yields a superconformal field theory. The associativity of the star product, and more generally the formality conjecture can then be understood by field theory methods. As an application, we compute the center of the deformed algebra in terms of the center of the Poisson algebra.

The Algebra of Chern-Simons Classes and the Poisson Bracket on it

Developing ideas based on combinatorial formulas for characteristic classes we introduce the algebra modeling secondary characteristic classes associated to $N$ connections. Certain elements of the algebra correspond to the ordinary and secondary characteristic classes.That construction allows us to give easily the explicit formulas for some known secondary classes and to construct the new ones. We write how $i$-th differential and $i$-th homotopy operator in the algebra are connected with the Poisson bracket defined in this algebra. There is an analogy between this algebra and the noncommutat…

Poisson brackets symmetry from the pentagon-wheel cocycle in the graph complex

Kontsevich designed a scheme to generate infinitesimal symmetries $\dot{\mathcal{P}} = \mathcal{Q}(\mathcal{P})$ of Poisson brackets $\mathcal{P}$ on all affine manifolds $M^r$; every such deformation is encoded by oriented graphs on $n+2$ vertices and $2n$ edges. In particular, these symmetries can be obtained by orienting sums of non-oriented graphs $γ$ on $n$ vertices and $2n-2$ edges. The bi-vector flow $\dot{\mathcal{P}} = \text{Or}(γ)(\mathcal{P})$ preserves the space of Poisson structures if $γ$ is a cocycle with respect to the vertex-expanding differential in the graph complex. A class…

Generalized q-deformed Gelfand-Dickey structures on the group of q-pseudodifference operators

We define the q-deformed Gelfand-Dickey bracket on the space of q-pseudodifference symbols which agrees with the Poisson Virasoro algebra of E.Frenkel and N.Reshetikhin and its generalizations and prove its uniqueness (in a natural class of quadratic Poisson structures). The associated hierarchies of nonlinear q-difference equations are also constructed.

Infinitesimal Operations on Complexes of Graphs

In two seminal papers Kontsevich used a construction called_graph homology_ as a bridge between certain infinite dimensional Lie algebras and various topological objects, including moduli spaces of curves, the group of outer automorphisms of a free group, and invariants of odd dimensional manifolds. In this paper, we show that Kontsevich's graph complexes, which include graph complexes studied earlier by Culler and Vogtmann and by Penner, have a rich algebraic structure. We define a Lie bracket and cobracket on graph complexes, and in fact show that they are Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras, and th…

Kontsevich图作用于Nambu-Poisson括号，I. 雅可比行列式的新恒等式

Kontsevich graphs act on Nambu-Poisson brackets, I. New identities for Jacobian determinants

本文研究Kontsevich图对Nambu-Poisson括号的作用，证明图上闭链保持Nambu-Poisson类并推导其演化，分析不同维度下图流的平凡化问题，发现雅可比行列式的新恒等式。

耦合双泊松括号

Coupled double Poisson brackets

本文研究了在结合代数上耦合的双泊松括号，引入了满足交叉雅可比恒等式的广义Van den Bergh双泊松括号和广义Fairon-McCulloch右双泊松括号，建立了与Ginzburg-Schedler轮泊松括号的双射关系，并在自由多项式代数上建立了线性耦合双泊松括号与新的代数结构Poisson-left-pre-Lie代数的一一对应关系。

Infinitesimal deformations of Poisson bi-vectors using the Kontsevich graph calculus

Let $P$ be a Poisson structure on a finite-dimensional affine real manifold. Can $P$ be deformed in such a way that it stays Poisson? The language of Kontsevich graphs provides a universal approach -- with respect to all affine Poisson manifolds -- to finding a class of solutions to this deformation problem. For that reasoning, several types of graphs are needed. In this paper we outline the algorithms to generate those graphs. The graphs that encode deformations are classified by the number of internal vertices $k$; for $k \leqslant 4$ we present all solutions of the deformation problem. For …

Star products and branes in Poisson-Sigma models

We prove that non-coisotropic branes in the Poisson-Sigma model are allowed at the quantum level. When the brane is defined by second-class constraints, the perturbative quantization of the model yields the Kontsevich's star product associated to the Dirac bracket on the brane. We also discuss the quantization when both first and second-class constraints are present.

Double quantization of $\cp$ type orbits by generalized Verma modules

It is known that symmetric orbits in ${\bf g}^*$ for any simple Lie algebra ${\bf g}$ are equiped with a Poisson pencil generated by the Kirillov-Kostant-Souriau bracket and the reduced Sklyanin bracket associated to the "canonical" R-matrix. We realize quantization of this Poisson pencil on $\cp$ type orbits (i.e. orbits in $sl(n+1)^*$ whose real compact form is $ CP^n$) by means of q-deformed Verma modules.

Deformed Chern-Simons Theories

We construct a Chern-Simons action for q-deformed gauge theory which is a simple and straightforward generalization of the usual one. Space-time continues to be an ordinary (commuting) manifold, while the gauge potentials and the field strengths become q-commuting fields. Our approach, which is explicitly carried out for the case of `minimal' deformations, has the advantage of leading naturally to a consistent Hamiltonian structure that has essentially all of the features of the undeformed case. For example, using the new Poisson brackets, the constraints form a closed algebra and generate q-d…

The deformation quantization of certain super-Poisson brackets and BRST cohomology

On every split supermanifold equipped with the Rothstein even super-Poisson bracket we construct a deformation quantization by means of a Fedosov-type procedure. In other words, the supercommutative algebra of all smooth sections of the dual Grassmann algebra bundle of an arbitrarily given vector bundle E (equipped with a fibre metric) over a symplectic manifold M will be deformed by a series of bidifferential operators having first order supercommutator proportional to the Rothstein superbracket. Moreover, we discuss two constructions related to the above result, namely the quantized BRST-coh…

Deformation quantization of the simplest Poisson Orbifold

Whenever a given Poisson manifold is equipped with discrete symmetries the corresponding algebra of invariant functions or the algebra of functions twisted by the symmetry group can have new deformations, which are not captured by Kontsevich Formality. We consider the simplest example of this situation: $\mathbb{R}^2$ with the reflection symmetry $\mathbb{Z}_2$. The usual quantization leads to the Weyl algebra. While Weyl algebra is rigid, the algebra of even or twisted by $\mathbb{Z}_2$ functions has one more deformation, which was identified by Wigner and is related to Feigin's $gl_λ$ and to…

Deformations of the classical W-algebras associated to D_n, E_6 and G_2

We give explicit formulas for the generators of $q$-deformed W-algebras associated to Lie algebras $D_n, E_6$ and $G_2$, and compute the Poisson brackets between the generators.

Algebraic and Differential Star Products on Regular Orbits of Compact Lie Groups

In this paper we study a family of algebraic deformations of regular coadjoint orbits of compact semisimple Lie groups with the Kirillov Poisson bracket. The deformations are restrictions of deformations on the dual of the Lie algebra. We prove that there are non isomorphic deformations in the family. The star products are not differential, unlike the star products considered in other approaches. We make a comparison with the differential star product canonically defined by Kontsevich's map.

From local to global deformation quantization of Poisson manifolds

We give an explicit construction of a deformation quantization of the algebra of functions on a Poisson manifolds, based on Kontsevich's local formula. The deformed algebra of functions is realized as the algebra of horizontal sections of a vector bundle with flat connection.

Do the Kontsevich tetrahedral flows preserve or destroy the space of Poisson bi-vectors?

From the paper "Formality Conjecture" (Ascona 1996): "I am aware of only one such a class, it corresponds to simplest good graph, the complete graph with $4$ vertices $($and $6$ edges$)$. This class gives a remarkable vector field on the space of bi-vector fields on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$. The evolution with respect to the time $t$ is described by the following non-linear partial differential equation: ..., where $α=\sum_{i,j}α_{ij} {\partial}/{\partial x_{i}}\wedge {\partial}/{\partial x_{j}}$ is a bi-vector field on $\mathbb{R}^d$. It follows from general properties of cohomology that $1)$ this ev…

Associative algebras, punctured disks and the quantization of Poisson manifolds

The aim of the note is to provide an introduction to the algebraic, geometric and quantum field theoretic ideas that lie behind the Kontsevich-Cattaneo-Felder formula for the quantization of Poisson structures. We show how the quantization formula itself naturally arises when one imposes the following two requirements to a Feynman integral: on the one side it has to reproduce the given Poisson structure as the first order term of its perturbative expansion; on the other side its three-point functions should describe an associative algebra. It is further shown how the Magri-Koszul brackets on 1…

BRST theory without Hamiltonian and Lagrangian

We consider a generic gauge system, whose physical degrees of freedom are obtained by restriction on a constraint surface followed by factorization with respect to the action of gauge transformations; in so doing, no Hamiltonian structure or action principle is supposed to exist. For such a generic gauge system we construct a consistent BRST formulation, which includes the conventional BV Lagrangian and BFV Hamiltonian schemes as particular cases. If the original manifold carries a weak Poisson structure (a bivector field giving rise to a Poisson bracket on the space of physical observables) t…

Koszul duality in deformation quantization, I

Let $α$ be a polynomial Poisson bivector on a finite-dimensional vector space $V$ over $\mathbb{C}$. Then Kontsevich [K97] gives a formula for a quantization $f\star g$ of the algebra $S(V)^*$. We give a construction of an algebra with the PBW property defined from $α$ by generators and relations. Namely, we define an algebra as the quotient of the free tensor algebra $T(V^*)$ by relations $x_i\otimes x_j-x_j\otimes x_i=R_{ij}(\hbar)$ where $R_{ij}(\hbar)\in T(V^*)\otimes\hbar \mathbb{C}[[\hbar]]$, $R_{ij}=\hbar \Sym(α_{ij})+\mathcal{O}(\hbar^2)$, with one relation for each pair of $i,j=1...\d…

Twisting all the way: from Classical Mechanics to Quantum Fields

We discuss the effects that a noncommutative geometry induced by a Drinfeld twist has on physical theories. We systematically deform all products and symmetries of the theory. We discuss noncommutative classical mechanics, in particular its deformed Poisson bracket and hence time evolution and symmetries. The twisting is then extended to classical fields, and then to the main interest of this work: quantum fields. This leads to a geometric formulation of quantization on noncommutative spacetime, i.e. we establish a noncommutative correspondence principle from *-Poisson brackets to *-commutator…

非交换代数形变中的交换泊松代数

Commutative Poisson algebras from deformations of noncommutative algebras

本文将形式形变导出泊松括号的经典结果推广至非交换代数，在中心与商空间的积上构造泊松代数结构，并以多个量子代数实例验证。

Membrane Sigma-Models and Quantization of Non-Geometric Flux Backgrounds

We develop quantization techniques for describing the nonassociative geometry probed by closed strings in flat non-geometric R-flux backgrounds M. Starting from a suitable Courant sigma-model on an open membrane with target space M, regarded as a topological sector of closed string dynamics in R-space, we derive a twisted Poisson sigma-model on the boundary of the membrane whose target space is the cotangent bundle T^*M and whose quasi-Poisson structure coincides with those previously proposed. We argue that from the membrane perspective the path integral over multivalued closed string fields …