Hochschild cohomology of the Weyl algebra and traces in deformation quantization

Given a Lie algebra with a scalar product, one may consider the latter as a symplectic structure on a $dg$-scheme, which is the spectrum of the Chevalley--Eilenberg algebra. In the first section we explicitly calculate the first order deformation of the differential on the Hochschild complex of the Chevalley--Eilenberg algebra. The answer contains the Duflo character. This calculation is used in the last section. There we sketch the definition of the Wilson loop invariant of ...

We study Hochschild homology and cohomology for some polynomial algebras mixing both ``classical'' relations ($XY-YX=1$) and ``quantum'' relations ($XY={\l}YX$). More specifically, we prove that the algebra of differential operators on any quantum affine space (quantum Weyl algebra) have the same Hochschild homology, and satisfy the same duality relation, as the classical Weyl algebra does.

We compute the Hochschild homology of the crossed product $\Bbb C[S_n]\ltimes A^{\otimes n}$ in terms of the Hochschild homology of the associative algebra $A$ (over $\Bbb C$). It allows us to compute the Hochschild (co)homology of $\Bbb C[W]\ltimes A^{\otimes n}$ where $A$ is the $q$-Weyl algebra or any its degeneration and $W$ is the Weyl group of type $A_{n-1}$ or $B_n$. For a deformation quantization $A_+$ of an affine symplectic variety $X$ we show that the Hochschild ho...

This paper is the continuation of arXiv:0802.1245. We construct the Hochschild class for coherent modules over a deformation quantization algebroid on a complex Poisson manifold. We also define the convolution of Hochschild homologies, and prove that the Hochschild class of the convolution of two coherent modules is the convolution of their Hochschild classes. We study with some details the case of symplectic deformations.

Using the Moyal *-product and orthosymplectic supersymmetry, we construct a natural non trivial supertrace and an associated non degenerate invariant supersymmetric bilinear form for the Lie superalgebra structure of the Weyl algebra. We decompose adjoint and twisted adjoint actions. We define a renormalized supertrace and a formal inverse Weyl transform in a deformation quantization framework and develop some examples.

We survey several generalizations of the Weyl algebra including generalized Weyl algebras, twisted generalized Weyl algebras, quantized Weyl algebras, and Bell-Rogalski algebras. Attention is paid to ring-theoretic properties, representation theory, and invariant theory.

We first introduce the Wigner-Weyl-Moyal formalism for a theory whose phase-space is an arbitrary Lie algebra. We also generalize to quantum Lie algebras and to supersymmetric theories. It turns out that the non-commutativity leads to a deformation of the classical phase-space: instead of being a vector space it becomes a manifold, the topology of which is given by the commutator relations. It is shown in fact that the classical phase-space, for a semi-simple Lie algebra, bec...

We give a new computation of Hochschild (co)homology of the exterior algebra, together with algebraic structures, by direct comparison with the symmetric algebra. The Hochschild cohomology is determined to be essentially the algebra of even-weight polyvector fields. From Kontsevich's formality theorem, the differential graded Lie algebra of Hochschild cochains is proved to be formal when the vector space generating the exterior algebra is even dimensional. We conjecture that ...

We construct a trace map on the chiral homology of chiral Weyl algebra for any smooth Riemann surface. Our trace map can be viewed as a chiral version of the deformed HKR quasi-isomorphism. This also provides a mathematical rigorous construction of correlation function for symplectic bosons in physics. We calculate some examples of trace maps with one insertion and find they are closely related to the variation of analytic torsion for holomorphic bundles on Riemann surfaces.

Given a mechanical system $(M, \mathcal{F}(M))$, where $M$ is a Poisson manifold and $\mathcal{F}(M)$ the algebra of regular functions on $M$, it is important to be able to quantize it, in order to obtain more precise results than through classical mechanics. An available method is the deformation quantization, which consists in constructing a star-product on the algebra of formal power series $\mathcal{F}(M)[[\hbar]]$. A first step toward study of star-products is the calcul...