On asymptotic expansions of generalized Bergman kernels on symplectic manifolds
Yuri A. Kordyukov

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This paper derives detailed asymptotic expansions for generalized Bergman kernels on symplectic manifolds and constructs the associated Toeplitz operator algebra, advancing understanding in geometric analysis.
Contribution
It provides the first full off-diagonal asymptotic expansion for these kernels and constructs the Toeplitz algebra related to the renormalized Bochner Laplacian.
Findings
Established full off-diagonal asymptotic expansion for generalized Bergman kernels.
Constructed the algebra of Toeplitz operators on symplectic manifolds.
Enhanced tools for geometric quantization and analysis on symplectic manifolds.
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A full off-diagonal asymptotic expansion is established for the generalized Bergman kernels of the renormalized Bochner Laplacians associated with high tensor powers of a positive line bundle over a compact symplectic manifold. As an application, the algebra of Toeplitz operators on the symplectic manifold associated with the renormalized Bochner Laplacian is constructed.
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On asymptotic expansions of generalized Bergman kernels on symplectic manifolds
Yuri A. Kordyukov
Institute of Mathematics with Computing Centre
Ufa Federal Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences
112 Chernyshevsky str.
450008 Ufa
Russia
Dedicated to the 130th anniversary of Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov’s birth
Abstract.
A full off-diagonal asymptotic expansion is established for the generalized Bergman kernels of the renormalized Bochner Laplacians associated with high tensor powers of a positive line bundle over a compact symplectic manifold. As an application, the algebra of Toeplitz operators on the symplectic manifold associated with the renormalized Bochner Laplacian is constructed.
Key words and phrases:
Symplectic manifold, Bochner Laplacian, Bergman kernel, asymptotics, Toeplitz operators, quantization
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification:
Primary 58J37; Secondary 53D50
The research is supported by the grant of Russian Science Foundation (project no. 17-11-01004)
1. Introduction
In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of the generalized Bergman kernels of the renormalized Bochner-Laplacians associated to high tensor powers of a positive line bundle over a compact symplectic manifold. So we consider a compact symplectic manifold of dimension . Let be a Hermitian line bundle on with a Hermitian connection . The curvature of this connection is given by . We will assume that satisfies the prequantization condition:
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Thus, . Let be a Hermitian vector bundle on with Hermitian connection , and let be the curvature of .
Let be a Riemannian metric on . Let be a skew-symmetric operator such that
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Consider the operator given by . Then is an almost complex structure compatible with and , that is, and for any .
Let be the Levi-Chivita connection of the metric . For any denote by the th tensor power of . Let be the connection on induced by and . Denote by the induced Bochner-Laplacian acting on by the formula
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where stands for the formal adjoint of the operator , and by the renormalized Bochner Laplacian acting on by the formula
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where is given by
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The renormalized Bochner-Laplacian was introduced by V. Guillemin and A. Uribe in [7]. When is a Kaehler manifold, it is twice the corresponding Kodaira-Laplacian on functions . The asymptotics of its spectrum as was studied in [4, 5, 7, 12, 14].
Denote by the spectrum of in . By [14, Corollary 1.2] (see also [3, 4, 5, 7]), there exists a constant such that
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for any , where is given by
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Consider the linear subspace spanned by the eigensections of corresponding to eigenvalues in . Let be the orthogonal projection in onto . The smooth kernel , , of the operator with respect to the Riemannian volume form is called a generalized Bergman kernel of .
We are interested in the asymptotic behavior of the generalized Bergman kernel as . First, we recall that, by [14], for any and , we have
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if . To describe the asymptotic expansion of near the diagonal, we introduce normal coordinates near an arbitrary point .
Let be the injectivity radius of the Riemannian manifold . We denote by and the open balls in and with center and radius , respectively. We identify with via the exponential map . Furthermore, we choose trivializations of the bundles and over , identifying their fibers and at with the spaces and by parallel transport with respect to the connections and along the curve . Denote by and the connection and the Hermitian metric on the trivial bundle with fiber induced by these trivializations.
Let denote the Riemannian volume form of the Euclidean space . We define a smooth function on
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by the equation
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The almost complex structure induces a decomposition
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where and are the eigenspaces of corresponding to eigenvalues and respectively. Denote by the determinant function of the complex space . Put
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Then is positive, and is skew-symmetric. We define a function by
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It is the Bergman kernel of the second order differential operator on given by
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where is an orthonormal base in . Here, for , we denote by the ordinary operator of differentiation in the direction on the space . Thus, is the smooth kernel (with respect to ) of the orthogonal projection in to the kernel of .
Consider the fiberwise product
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Let be the natural projection given by . The kernel induces a smooth section of the vector bundle on defined for all and with .
The main result of the paper is the following theorem, which states the existence of the full off-diagonal asymptotic expansion of the generalized Bergman kernel as .
Theorem 1**.**
There exists such that, for any , , there exist positive constants , and such that for any , and , , we have
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where
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the are polynomials in , depending smoothly on , with the same parity as and .
Here is the -norm for the parameter . We say that if for any , there exists such that -norm of is estimated from above by .
The full off-diagonal asymptotic expansion of the Bergman kernel of the spinc Dirac operator associated to a positive line bundle on a compact symplectic manifold was proved by X. Dai, K. Liu and X. Ma [6, Theorem 4.18’] (see also [13, Theorem 4.2.1]). Their approach is inspired by the local index theory, especially by the analytic techniques of Bismut and Lebeau. In that case, it is very important that the eigenvalues of the associated Laplacian are either [math] or tend to .
In the current situation, the renormalized Bochner-Laplacian possibly have different bounded eigenvalues. Nevertheless, in [14], X. Ma and G. Marinescu developed the method to obtain a weaker result, a near diagonal asymptotic expansion of the generalized Bergman kernels of the renormalized Bochner Laplacian [14, Theorem 1.19] (see also [13, Theorem 4.1.24]), which turned out to be sufficient for many applications. The paper [14] also contains computations of some coefficients .
In this paper, we modify the technique of Ma and Marinescu to prove the full off-diagonal asymptotic expansion of the generalized Bergman kernels of the renormalized Bochner Laplacian. We follow the strategy of [6, 14]. So the first step is localization of the problem in a neighborhood of the diagonal. Then we rescale the operator in the normal coordinates introduced above and obtain its formal asymptotic expansion as . Finally, we use the Riesz formula, the formal power series technique, Sobolev norm estimates and Sobolev embedding theorems. The most essential improvement which allows us to extend the domain of validity of asymptotic expansions is the use of weighted Sobolev spaces and weighted estimates. Here we apply the technique that was used earlier in [9, 10, 1, 2] to prove pointwise estimates for the kernels of functions of elliptic differential operators on noncompact manifolds.
As an immediate application of Theorem 1, we construct the algebra of Toeplitz operators on the symplectic manifold associated with the renormalized Bochner Laplacian. Actually, once we prove the full off-diagonal asymptotic expansion of the generalized Bergman kernels, we can easily get a characterization of Toeplitz operators and prove that these operators form an algebra, following the arguments of [15]. In the process of preparation of this paper, X. Ma and G. Marinescu informed me about the preprint [8], where they constructed the algebra of Toeplitz operators associated with the renormalized Bochner Laplacian, by using asymptotic expansions of the generalized Bergman kernels in two complimentary domains covering the manifold [8, (2.5) and Theorem 2.1] (see also [11]). These expansions are stronger than the near diagonal expansions proved in [14], but weaker than the full off-diagonal ones established in the present paper.
The paper is organized as follows. In §2 we recall the results of [14, Sections 1.1 and 1.2] on the localization and the rescaling of the problem which allow us to obtain a formal asymptotic expansion of the renormalized Bochner-Laplacian as . In §3, we derive the weighted norm estimates for the resolvent of the renormalized Bochner-Laplacian . In §4, we derive the weighted norm estimates for the generalized Bergman projection associated with the operator and its derivatives of an arbitrary order with respect to . In §5, we first use the estimates of Section 4 to derive the weighted norm estimates for the remainders in the asymptotic formula for the generalized Bergman projection . Then Sobolev embedding theorem allows us to obtain pointwise estimates of the remainders in the asymptotic formula for the generalized Bergman kernels. Finally, writing these pointwise estimates in the initial coordinates, we complete the proof of the main theorem. §6 is devoted to Toeplitz operators.
The author is grateful to X. Ma and G. Marinescu for useful discussions.
2. Localization and rescaling of the problem
In this section, we recall the results of [14, Sections 1.1 and 1.2] on the localization and rescaling of the problem, which allow us to obtain a formal asymptotic expansion of the renormalized Bochner Laplacian as .
We will keep the notation introduced in §1. We fix . Let be an oriented orthonormal basis of . It gives rise to an isomorphism . Consider the trivial bundles and with fibers and on . Recall that we have the Riemannian metric on as well as the connections , and the Hermitian metrics , on the restrictions of and to induced by the identification . In particular, , are the constant metrics , . For , one can extend these geometric objects from to in the following way.
Let be a smooth even function such that if and if . Let be the map defined by . We equip with the metric . Set . Define the Hermitian connection on by
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where .
One can show that, for small enough, the curvature is positive and satisfies the following estimate for any ,
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From now on, we fix such an .
We also extend the function from to . Let be the Riemannian volume form of . Then is the smooth positive function on defined by the equation
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Let be the associated renormalized Bochner Laplacian acting on . Then (cf. [14, Equation (1.23)]) there exists a constant such that for any we have
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Consider the subspace in spanned by the eigensections of corresponding to eigenvalues in . Let be the orthogonal projection onto . The smooth kernel of with respect to the Riemannian volume form is denoted by . The kernels and are asymptotically close on in the -topology, as .
Proposition 1** ([14], Proposition 1.3).**
For any , there exists such that for and , we have
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Next, we use the rescaling introduced in [14, Section 1.2]. Denote . For , set
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The rescaled connection is defined as
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Let , be the connection forms of , with respect to some fixed frames for and which are parallel along the curves under the chosen trivializations on . Then on , we have
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Recall that
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In particular,
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Similar identities are valid for .
The rescaled operator is defined to be
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We have
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By (4), it follows that
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for sufficiently small . Observe that the operators and depend smoothly on up to . Their limits as are the operators
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and given by (2). The spectrum of consists of a discrete set of eigenvalues of infinite multiplicity (see, for instance, [14, Theorem 1.15]). In particular,
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One can develop the rescaled operator in a Taylor series in . For the resulting asymptotic expansion, we refer the reader to [14, Theorem 1.4].
3. Norm estimates of the resolvent
The next step is the norm estimates. In this section, we derive the weighted norm estimates for the resolvent of the operator . First, we recall and slightly modify the results of [14, Section 1.3].
Denote by the space of smooth functions on with values in whose derivatives of any order are uniformly bounded in . So if, for any , we have
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For and , let be the set of linear combinations of operators of the form , , with coefficients from . It is easy to see that is independent of , therefore, we will omit in the notation: . Observe that, if is in , then the adjoint is in .
For set
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and, for any and ,
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Let denote the inner product on corresponding to . Let be the Sobolev space of order with norm . For any integer , we define the Sobolev space by duality. It is easy to see that, for different and , the norms and are equivalent, uniformly in . For any bounded linear operator with , we denote by its norm with respect to and .
Let be the circle in oriented counterclockwise, centered at [math] and of radius . The following theorem is a slight modification of [14, Theorem 1.7].
Theorem 2**.**
There exists such that the resolvent exists for all , . Moreover, there exists such that for all , and we have
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Proof.
The first inequality follows by the spectral theorem. Next, we have
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For the third inequality, we refer to the proof of [14, Theorem 1.7]. ∎
Now we introduce weighted spaces. Consider a function given by
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An important point is that satisfies the estimates
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with some , and, for any with ,
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For any , let be the weighted -space in with the weight :
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A family of equivalent norms in is defined by
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where, for any , the function is given by
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We will denote by the space with the norm . Similarly, one can introduce weighted Sobolev spaces.
Since the multiplication operator by defines a unitary operator , any bounded operator in is unitarily equivalent to the operator in . In the sequel, instead of working directly with the weighted spaces , we will consider operator families of the form and only at the very end switch to weighted estimates.
First, we observe that
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In particular, this immediately implies that, if in , then the operator is in . Moreover, the family is a bounded family of operators belonging to .
Next, for the operator , we obtain
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where
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In particular,
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We have the following extension of [14, Theorem 1.6].
Theorem 3**.**
There exist constants such that for any , , and we have
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Proof.
Using (6), (8), (9), and [14, Theorem 1.6], we get
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and
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Now we extend Theorem 2 to the operators .
Theorem 4**.**
There exist and such that, for all , , , and the inverse operator exists and
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Proof.
By Theorem 2, it follows that, for all , , , and , we have
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Similarly,
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Choose such that . If , then the operator is invertible in . Using the resolvent identity
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we infer
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Therefore,
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Similarly,
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Therefore, we get
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Finally,
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In the sequel, we will keep the notation for the constant given by Theorem 4, which will usually be related to the interval of admissible values of the parameter .
Observe that, for any , , , and , the operators and are related by the identity
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which should be understood in the following way. If , then, for any , the expression makes sense and defines a function in . Thus, we get a well defined operator
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one can check that for any . So (10) means that the operator extends to a bounded operator in , which coincides with . If , then, for any , the expression
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makes sense as a distribution on . Thus, we get a well defined operator
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So (10) means that this operator is indeed a bounded operator in , which coincides with .
The following proposition is an extension of Proposition 1.8 in [14]
Proposition 2**.**
For any natural , there exists such that for any , , , and we have
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Proof.
Recall the commutator relations
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It follows that
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By (7), the operator has the form
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where as functions of are in with all the norms uniformly bounded on . Moreover, they are polynomials in . Using the commutator relations, one can see that, for , the operator has the same structure as . If is the adjoint of with respect to , then
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Using these facts, one can easily complete the proof. ∎
The following result is an analog of Theorem 1.9 in [14]. For its proof, we can apply verbatim the proof of that theorem.
Theorem 5**.**
For any , , , and , the resolvent maps to . Moreover, for any and , there exists such that for , , and we have
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4. Norm estimates of the generalized Bergman projections
In this section, we derive the weighted norm estimates for the generalized Bergman projection associated with the operator and its derivatives of an arbitrary order with respect to .
We let the symbol stand for the spectral projection for corresponding to the interval . Let be the smooth kernel of with respect to . For any integers and , we can write
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Proposition 3**.**
For any , , and , the operator extends to a bounded operator in with the norm bounded uniformly in and .
Proof.
First of all, we note that, for any , , and , the operator is well defined as an operator from to .
By Theorem 5, it follows that, for any , there exists such that, for all , , , and we have
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Since is formally self-adjoint with respect to , we have , so after taking the adjoints, for all , , and we get
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Thus, for any , there exists such that, for all , , and we have
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By the above estimates, the desired statement follows immediately from the formula
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with , which can be justified much in the same way as relation (10) above. ∎
Theorem 6**.**
For any , , and , there exists such that, for any and , we have
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Proof.
We use the formula
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with .
Put
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Then we write
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where the are some constants and
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Now we can proceed as in the proof of [14, Theorem 1.10]. We only observe that , and, for , we have . We deduce that for any , and , there exists such that
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for and . This completes the proof. ∎
Using similar arguments, one can prove the following theorem.
Theorem 7**.**
For any , , and , there exists such that, for any and , we have
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5. Asymptotic expansions and proofs of the main results
In this section, we complete the proof of the main theorem. First, recall that, by [14, Theorem 1.11], for any , the limit of as in exists and
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where is the smoothing operator in given by
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with sufficiently large, and
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Observe that the estimates in Theorem 7 are uniform in up to , which immediately implies that the same statement is fulfilled for the limiting value . We conclude that, for any , , and , there exists such that, for any , we have
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For any and , put
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Theorem 8**.**
For any , and , there exists such that, for any and , we have
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Proof.
The statement follows immediately from the Taylor formula
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and estimates (12). ∎
Theorem 9**.**
For any , , there exist and such that for any and
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Proof.
For , let be the set of differential operators in of the form with . We claim that, for any , and for any there exists such that
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for any . To prove (14), we first observe that any can be written as
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where and the satisfy the following condition: for any , there exists such that
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Similarly, any operator can be written as
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where and the satisfy (15).
Then we have
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For every term in the right-hand side of the last inequality, we get
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which completes the proof of (14).
Let denote the usual Sobolev space on with the norm
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is the Fourier transform of . By (14), it follows that, for any and there exist and such that
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for any and . In particular, for any with for some , we have
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For any , consider the delta-function defined by for . Let be the delta-function at : . Then , with the norm, uniformly bounded in and with (actually, independent of ). We can write
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with some . Therefore, we get
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By the Sobolev embedding theorem, for . Therefore, using (16), for with an arbitrary we get
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Setting , we obtain
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and
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which completes the proof in the case .
To treat the case where , we proceed as in the proof of [14, Theorem 1.10]. For any vector , the following formula holds:
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The operator is given by a formula similar to (11). Then we observe that is a differential operator on with the same structure as . This allows us to extend all our considerations to the case of an arbitrary . ∎
To complete the proof of Theorem 1, we observe that, by (5),
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and make use of Proposition 1. We remark that, by [14, Theorem 1.18], we have for , .
6. Toeplitz operators
In this section, we construct the algebra of Toeplitz operators associated with the renormalized Bochner Laplacian on the symplectic manifold . The proofs of the results of this section are obtained by a word for word repetition of the arguments of the paper [15]. So we only give basic definitions and statements of the main results. As mentioned in the Introduction, the algebra of Toeplitz operators associated with the renormalized Bochner Laplacian was also constructed in [8].
Definition 1**.**
A Toeplitz operator is a sequence of bounded linear operators , satisfying the following conditions.
**(i): **
For any , we have
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**(ii): **
There exists a sequence such that
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i.e. for any natural there exists such that
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The full symbol of is the formal series and the principal symbol of is .
In the particular case when for and , we get the operator . The Schwartz kernel of is given by
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Lemma 1**.**
For any and , there exists such that for any and with we have
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Let be a sequence of linear operators with smooth kernel with respect to . As described in the Introduction, induces a smooth section of the vector bundle on defined for all and with . Recall that denotes the Bergman kernel in given by (1).
Definition 2**.**
We say that
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with some , , depending smoothly on , if there exist and with the following property: for any , there exist and such that for any , and , , we have
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By Theorem 1, for any , we have
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For any polynomial , consider the operator in with the kernel with respect to . For any polynomials , define the polynomial by the condition
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where is the composition of the operators and in .
Lemma 2**.**
Let . For any , , , , we have
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where the polynomials have the same parity as and are given by
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In particular,
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We have the following criterion for Toeplitz operators.
Theorem 10**.**
A family of bounded linear operators is a Toeplitz operator if and only if it satisfies the following three conditions:
**(i): **
For any , we have
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**(ii): **
For any and , there exists such that
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for any and with .
**(iii): **
There exist a family of polynomials , depending smoothly on , of the same parity as and such that
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for any , , , .
Using this criterion, one can show that the set of Toeplitz operators is an algebra.
Theorem 11**.**
Let . Then the composition of the Toeplitz operators and is a Toeplitz operator. More precisely, it admits the asymptotic expansion
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with some , where the are bidifferential operators. In particular, and, for , we have
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where is the Poisson bracket on .
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