Quantization, Poisson brackets and beyond : London Mathematical Society Regional Meeting and Workshop on Quantization, Deformations, and New Homological and Categorical Methods in Mathematical Physics, July 6-13, 2001, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, United Kingdom / / Theodore Voronov, editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811527103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2002]; ©2002
• ISBN: 0-8218-7905-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary mathematics, ; 315 , 0271-4132
• Disciplina: 530.15
• Soggetti: Geometric quantization; Poisson brackets; Mathematical physics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents -- Preface -- Deformation quantization: Pro and contra -- Quantization as a functor -- Star exponential functions for quadratic forms and polar elements -- On traces for differential star products on symplectic manifolds -- Quantum G-manifolds -- Uq(sl(n))-covariant quantization of symmetric coadjoint orbits via reflection equation algebra -- Toward a classification of Poisson structures on surfaces -- Lectures on operads -- Graded manifolds and Drinfeld doubles for Lie bialgebroids -- On the structure of graded symplectic supermanifolds and Courant algebroids -- On certain canonical diffeomorphisms in symplectic and Poisson geometry -- Laplacians in odd symplectic geometry -- Differential operators and actions of Lie algebroids -- Poisson actions and Lie bialgebroid morphisms -- Identities and derivations for Jacobian algebras.