Berezin-Toeplitz quantization revisited

TL;DR

This paper studies the global asymptotic behavior of Berezin-Toeplitz operators on Kähler manifolds, showing they approximate differential operators and characterizing when they are holomorphic differential operators.

Contribution

It provides a global analysis of Berezin-Toeplitz operators, establishing their asymptotic locality and characterizing their holomorphic differential operator structure.

Findings

Berezin-Toeplitz operators are asymptotic to differential operators as k→∞

Holomorphic differential operators correspond to quantizable functions

Constructs higher order analogues of pre-quantum differential operators

Abstract

This is a sequel to a series of works, where we studied the local aspects of the asymptotic action of deformation quantization on the Hilbert spaces $H^0(X, L^{\otimes k})$ of geometric quantization for a K\"ahler manifold $X$; here $L$ is a pre-quantum line bundle on $X$. In this paper, we consider the Berezin-Toeplitz deformation quantization and obtain the following global results concerning the asymptotic action of Berezin-Toeplitz operators on $H^0(X, L^{\otimes k})$: (1). For a general smooth function $f \in C^\infty(X)$, we prove that the Berezin-Toeplitz operators $T_{f,k}$ are asymptotic to differential operators acting on $H^0(X, L^{\otimes k})$ as $k \to \infty$. An immediate consequence is their asymptotic locality. (2). If $f \in C^\infty(X)$ is furthermore the symbol of a level $k$ quantizable function, then we prove that the associated Berezin-Toeplitz operators $T_{f,k}$ are all holomorphic differential operators. Conversely, Berezin-Toeplitz operators that are holomorphic differential operators all arise in this way. This gives a complete characterization of when Berezin-Toeplitz operators are holomorphic differential operators. To prove these results, we construct higher order analgoues of Kostant-Souriau's pre-quantum differential operators using our Fedosov-type constructions in previous works, establish new orthogonality relations which generalize the classical Tuynman's Lemma, and employ various differential-geometric and analytic technqiues such as H\"ormander's estimates.