Bergman Kernels and Symplectic Reduction

Bergman Kernels and Symplectic Reduction
Author: Xiaonan Ma
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2008
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN:

The authors generalize several recent results concerning the asymptotic expansions of Bergman kernels to the framework of geometric quantization and establish an asymptotic symplectic identification property. More precisely, they study the asymptotic expansion of the $G$-invariant Bergman kernel of the $\mathrm{spin}^c$ Dirac operator associated with high tensor powers of a positive line bundle on a symplectic manifold admitting a Hamiltonian action of a compact connected Lie group $G$. The authors also develop a way to compute the coefficients of the expansion, and compute the first few of them; especially, they obtain the scalar curvature of the reduction space from the $G$-invariant Bergman kernel on the total space. These results generalize the corresponding results in the non-equivariant setting, which have played a crucial role in the recent work of Donaldson on stability of projective manifolds, to the geometric quantization setting. As another kind of application, the authors establish some Toeplitz operator type properties in semi-classical analysis in the framework of geometric quantization. The method used is inspired by Local Index Theory, especially by the analytic localization techniques developed by Bismut and Lebeau.

Holomorphic Morse Inequalities and Bergman Kernels

Holomorphic Morse Inequalities and Bergman Kernels
Author: Xiaonan Ma
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2007-12-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3764381159

This book examines holomorphic Morse inequalities and the asymptotic expansion of the Bergman kernel on manifolds by using the heat kernel. It opens perspectives on several active areas of research in complex, Kähler and symplectic geometry. A large number of applications are also included, such as an analytic proof of Kodaira's embedding theorem, a solution of the Grauert-Riemenschneider and Shiffman conjectures, compactification of complete Kähler manifolds of pinched negative curvature, Berezin-Toeplitz quantization, weak Lefschetz theorems, and asymptotics of the Ray-Singer analytic torsion.

Proceedings Of The International Congress Of Mathematicians 2010 (Icm 2010) (In 4 Volumes) - Vol. I: Plenary Lectures And Ceremonies, Vols. Ii-iv: Invited Lectures

Proceedings Of The International Congress Of Mathematicians 2010 (Icm 2010) (In 4 Volumes) - Vol. I: Plenary Lectures And Ceremonies, Vols. Ii-iv: Invited Lectures
Author: Rajendra Bhatia
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 4137
Release: 2011-06-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9814462934

ICM 2010 proceedings comprises a four-volume set containing articles based on plenary lectures and invited section lectures, the Abel and Noether lectures, as well as contributions based on lectures delivered by the recipients of the Fields Medal, the Nevanlinna, and Chern Prizes. The first volume will also contain the speeches at the opening and closing ceremonies and other highlights of the Congress.

Differential Geometry And Physics - Proceedings Of The 23th International Conference Of Differential Geometric Methods In Theoretical Physics

Differential Geometry And Physics - Proceedings Of The 23th International Conference Of Differential Geometric Methods In Theoretical Physics
Author: Weiping Zhang
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2006-12-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9814476587

This volumes provides a comprehensive review of interactions between differential geometry and theoretical physics, contributed by many leading scholars in these fields. The contributions promise to play an important role in promoting the developments in these exciting areas. Besides the plenary talks, the coverage includes: models and related topics in statistical physics; quantum fields, strings and M-theory; Yang-Mills fields, knot theory and related topics; K-theory, including index theory and non-commutative geometry; mirror symmetry, conformal and topological quantum field theory; development of integrable systems; and random matrix theory.

Differential Geometry and Physics

Differential Geometry and Physics
Author: Mo-Lin Ge
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2006
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9812703772

This volumes provides a comprehensive review of interactions between differential geometry and theoretical physics, contributed by many leading scholars in these fields. The contributions promise to play an important role in promoting the developments in these exciting areas. Besides the plenary talks, the coverage includes: models and related topics in statistical physics; quantum fields, strings and M-theory; Yang-Mills fields, knot theory and related topics; K-theory, including index theory and non-commutative geometry; mirror symmetry, conformal and topological quantum field theory; development of integrable systems; and random matrix theory.

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Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 1191
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Mathematical Aspects of Quantization

Mathematical Aspects of Quantization
Author: Sam Evens
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821875736

This book is a collection of expository articles from the Center of Mathematics at Notre Dame's 2011 program on quantization. Included are lecture notes from a summer school on quantization on topics such as the Cherednik algebra, geometric quantization, detailed proofs of Willwacher's results on the Kontsevich graph complex, and group-valued moment maps. This book also includes expository articles on quantization and automorphic forms, renormalization, Berezin-Toeplitz quantization in the complex setting, and the commutation of quantization with reduction, as well as an original article on derived Poisson brackets. The primary goal of this volume is to make topics in quantization more accessible to graduate students and researchers.

An Introduction to Extremal Kahler Metrics

An Introduction to Extremal Kahler Metrics
Author: Gábor Székelyhidi
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2014-06-19
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470410478

A basic problem in differential geometry is to find canonical metrics on manifolds. The best known example of this is the classical uniformization theorem for Riemann surfaces. Extremal metrics were introduced by Calabi as an attempt at finding a higher-dimensional generalization of this result, in the setting of Kähler geometry. This book gives an introduction to the study of extremal Kähler metrics and in particular to the conjectural picture relating the existence of extremal metrics on projective manifolds to the stability of the underlying manifold in the sense of algebraic geometry. The book addresses some of the basic ideas on both the analytic and the algebraic sides of this picture. An overview is given of much of the necessary background material, such as basic Kähler geometry, moment maps, and geometric invariant theory. Beyond the basic definitions and properties of extremal metrics, several highlights of the theory are discussed at a level accessible to graduate students: Yau's theorem on the existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics, the Bergman kernel expansion due to Tian, Donaldson's lower bound for the Calabi energy, and Arezzo-Pacard's existence theorem for constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics on blow-ups.