Poisson Geometry, Deformation Quantisation and Group Representations / edited by Simone Gutt, John Rawnsley, Daniel Sternheimer.

An accessible introduction to Poisson geometry suitable for graduate students.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Gutt, Simone, Rawnsley, John, Sternheimer, Daniel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Series:London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; no. 323.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Poisson geometry and Morita equivalence
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Poisson geometry and some generalizations
  • 3. Algebraic Morita equivalence
  • 4. Geometric Morita equivalence
  • 5. Geometric representation equivalence
  • pt. 2. Formality and star products
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The star product
  • 3. Rephrasing the main problem : the formality
  • 4. Digression : what happens in the dual
  • 5. The Kontsevich formula
  • 6. From local to global deformation quantization
  • pt. 3. Lie groupoids, sheaves and cohomology
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Lie groupoids
  • 3. Sheaves on Lie groupoids
  • 4. Sheaf cohomology
  • 5. Compactly supported cohomology
  • pt. 4. Geometric methods in representation theory.