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Publications and source records attributed to Laurent Hofer.
We present a quasi-Lie bialgebra (QLBA) quantization problem which comes from an algebraic reformulation of the Nambu-Goto string theory and invariant charges by Pohlmeyer and Rehren. This QLBA structure depends on a symmetric bivector (coming from a Minkowski metric) and is built on the free Lie algebra on a finite dimensional vector space. We solve this problem when the bivector has rank 1 or 2.
We introduce C-Algebras of compact Riemann surfaces $Σ$ as non-commutative analogues of the Poisson algebra of smooth functions on $Σ$. Representations of these algebras give rise to sequences of matrix-algebras for which matrix-commutators converge to Poisson-brackets as $N\to\infty$. For a particular class of surfaces, nicely interpolating between spheres and tori, we completely characterize (even for the intermediate singular surface) all finite dimensional representations of the corresponding C-algebras.