Thick morphisms of supermanifolds and oscillatory integral operators
Thick morphisms of supermanifolds and oscillatory integral operators
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超流形和振荡积分算子的厚态射
DOI:
10.1070/rm9725
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发表时间:
2015
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0.9
通讯作者:
T. Voronov
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作者:
T. Voronov
We show that thick morphisms (or microformal morphisms) between smooth (super)manifolds, introduced by us before, are classical limits of 'quantum thick morphisms' defined here as particular oscillatory integral operators on func- tions. In (3, 4) we introduced nonlinear pullbacks of functions with respect to 'micro- formal' or 'thick' morphisms of (super)manifolds, which generalize ordinary smooth maps. By definition, such a morphism is a formal canonical relation between the cotangent bundles of a special kind, namely, specified by a generating function de- pending on position coordinates on the source and momentum coordinates on the target. This function is seen as a power expansion near the zero section. Thick morphisms form a formal category; that means that the composition law for the gen- erating functions is a formal power series. Likewise, the pullback of a function w.r.t. a thick morphism is given by a formal power series whose terms are nonlinear dif- ferential operators. There is a parallel construction based on anticotangent bundles yielding nonlinear pullbacks of odd functions (the former construction applies to even functions). Our main application was to L1-morphisms between homotopy Schouten or Poisson algebras of functions. Another application was the construction of an 'adjoint operator' for nonlinear maps of vector bundles. (Thick morphisms in the even version are close to symplectic micromorphisms of Cattaneo-Dherin-Weinstein, see (1) and subsequent works, defined as germs of canonical relations between germs of symplectic manifolds at Lagrangian submanifolds; analogs of our pullbacks do not arise in such a setting. See further discussion of this in (4).) We show here that thick morphisms of microformal geometry can be seen as the classical limit of certain 'quantum thick morphisms', which are given by oscillatory integral operators of a particular kind. Let us point out that oscillatory integral operators (and Fourier integral operators) are well known, as well as well known is their connection with canonical relations between cotangent bundles. Roughly, each such relation defines a class of Fourier integral operators (see, e.g., (2)). We, however, consider a very special integral operator in this class, generalizing the operator of pullback w.r.t. a smooth map. It is defined by a 'quantum' version of a generating function specifying a thick morphism. 'Quantum' here mean depending on ~. The action of such operators on oscillatory wave functions in the classical limit exactly reproduces the nonlinear pullback of (3, 4). The same holds true for the composition of our operators: in the classical limit it reduces to the composition of thick morphisms.