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Closedness of Star Products and Cohomologies
1994
We first review the introduction of star products in connection with deformations of Poisson brackets and the various cohomologies that are related to them. Then we concentrate on what we have called “closed star products” and their relations with cyclic cohomology and index theorems. Finally we shall explain how quantum groups, especially in their recent topological form, are in essence examples of star products.
Quantum Groups, Star Products and Cyclic Cohomology
1993
After some historical remarks, we start with a rapid overview of the star-product theory (deformation of algebras of functions on phase space) and its applications to deformation-quantization. We then concentrate on Poisson-Lie groups and their “quantization”, give a star-product realization of quantum groups and discuss uniqueness and the rigidity as bialgebra of a universal model for the quantum SL(2) groups. In the last part we develop the notion of closed star-product (for which a trace can be defined on the algebra), show that it is classified by cyclic cohomology, permits to define a character and that there always exists one; finally we show that the pseudodifferential calculus on a …
Algebraic de Rham Cohomology
2017
Let k be a field of characteristic zero. We are going to define relative algebraic de Rham cohomology for general varieties over k, not necessarily smooth.
Holomorphic de Rham Cohomology
2017
We are going to define a natural comparison isomorphism between algebraic de Rham cohomology and singular cohomology of varieties over the complex numbers with coefficients in \(\mathbb {C}\). The link is provided by holomorphic de Rham cohomology, which we study in this chapter.