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Louis Ioos

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Berezin-Toeplitz Quantization of non-compact manifolds

We develop Berezin-Toeplitz quantization in a non-compact complex geometric setting. Let $(X,\Theta)$ be a Hermitian manifold, $(L,h^L)$ a positive holomorphic line bundle, and $(E,h^E)$ a holomorphic Hermitian vector bundle. Assuming that the Kodaira Laplacian on $(0,1)$-forms with values in $L^p\!\otimes E$ has a spectral gap growing linearly in $p$, we prove that the Bergman projection onto the $L^2$-holomorphic space $H^0_{(2)}(X,L^p\!\otimes E)$ enjoys the usual off-diagonal decay and admits a full asymptotic expansion on compact subsets as $p\to\infty$. As a consequence, for every smooth symbol $f\in\mathcal{C}^\infty_{\mathrm{const}}(X,\operatorname{End}(E))$ (constant outside a compact set), the associated Toeplitz operators $T_{f,p}=P_p f P_p$ form a closed algebra and satisfy a complete composition expansion, yielding a star-product on $\mathcal C^\infty_{\mathrm{const}}(X,\operatorname{End}(E))$ and the expected semiclassical commutator formula. We also give intrinsic criteria characterizing Toeplitz families with compactly supported kernels. We then provide geometric conditions guaranteeing the spectral gap on large classes of non-compact manifolds, via fundamental $L^2$-estimates for $\bar\partial$ on complete Hermitian manifolds (including bounded-geometry complete K\"ahler manifolds, K\"ahler-Einstein manifolds, pseudoconvex/weakly $1$-complete, and quasi-projective manifolds). Finally, for compactly supported bounded symbols, we prove a Szeg\H{o}-type theorem describing the eigenvalue distribution of the compact Toeplitz operators $T_{f,p}$ as $p\to\infty$.

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Bergman kernels and Poincar\'e series

We show that the Bergman kernel of a finite-volume quotient of a Hermitian manifold $\widetilde{X}$ with bounded geometry by a discrete group $\Gamma$ of its isometries is the same as the averaging over $\Gamma$ of the Bergman kernel on $\widetilde{X}$. We then use these results when $\widetilde{X}$ is a Hermitian symmetric space to show that a large class of relative Poincar\'e series does not vanish. This extends the results of Borthwick-Paul-Uribe and Barron (formerly Foth) to the case of general locally symmetric spaces of finite volume.

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Partial Bergman kernels and determinantal point processes on K\"ahler manifolds

We compute the full off-diagonal asymptotics of the equivariant and partial Bergman kernels associated with a circle action on a prequantized K\"ahler manifold with bounded geometry at infinity, then use these results to compute the asymptotics of the linear statistics of the associated determinantal point process as the number of points grows to infinity, showing that its distribution converges to a centered normal variable with variance given by the sum of an $H^1$-norm squared in the bulk and an $H^{1/2}$-norm squared on the boundary of the associated droplet.

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Asymptotics of unitary matrix elements in canonical bases

We compute the asymptotics of matrix elements in canonical bases of irreducible representations of the unitary group as the highest weight goes to infinity, in terms of the symplectic geometry of the associated coadjoint orbit. This uses tools of Berezin-Toeplitz quantization, and recovers as a special case the asymptotics of Wigner's d-matrix elements for the spin representations in quantum mechanics.

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A Riemann-Roch formula for singular reductions by circle actions

We compute a Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch type formula for the invariant Riemann-Roch number of a quantizable Hamiltonian $S^1$-manifold $(M,\omega,\J)$, allowing $0$ to be a singular value of the moment map $\J:M\to\R$. Our formula represents an instance of the Guillemin-Sternberg principle, which states that quantization should commute with reduction. The conceptual novelty of our result is that the involved reduced system only depends on the symplectic data of $M$. To establish this, we derive a complete singular stationary phase expansion of the Witten integral without appealing to any kind of desingularization. As a consequence, our formula expresses the invariant Riemann-Roch number purely in terms of symplectic invariants of the singular symplectic quotient. In particular, it involves a new explicit symplectic invariant of the singularities.

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Quantization of symplectic fibrations and canonical metrics

We relate Berezin-Toeplitz quantization of higher rank vector bundles to quantum-classical hybrid systems and quantization in stages of symplectic fibrations. We apply this picture to the analysis and geometry of vector bundles, including the spectral gap of the Berezin transform and the convergence rate of Donaldson's iterations towards balanced metrics on stable vector bundles. We also establish refined estimates in the scalar case to compute the rate of Donaldson's iterations towards balanced metrics on K\"ahler manifolds with constant scalar curvature.

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Balanced metrics for K\"ahler-Ricci solitons and quantized Futaki invariants

We show that a K\"ahler-Ricci soliton on a Fano manifold can always be smoothly approximated by a sequence of relative anticanonically balanced metrics, also called quantized K\"ahler-Ricci solitons. The proof uses a semiclassical estimate on the spectral gap of an equivariant Berezin transform to extend a strategy due to Donaldson, and can be seen as the quantization of a method due to Tian and Zhu, using quantized Futaki invariants as obstructions for quantized K\"ahler-Ricci solitons. As corollaries, we recover the uniqueness of K\"ahler-Ricci solitons up to automorphisms, and show how our result also applies to K\"ahler-Einstein Fano manifolds with general automorphism group.

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Anticanonically balanced metrics on Fano manifolds

We show that if a Fano manifold has discrete automorphism group and admits a polarized K\"ahler-Einstein metric, then there exists a sequence of anticanonically balanced metrics converging smoothly to the K\"ahler-Einstein metric. Our proof is based on a simplification of Donaldson's proof of the analogous result for balanced metrics, replacing a delicate geometric argument by the use of Berezin-Toeplitz quantization. We then apply this result to compute the asymptotics of the optimal rate of convergence to the fixed point of Donaldson's iterations in the anticanonical setting.

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Almost representations of algebras and quantization

We introduce the notion of almost representations of Lie algebras and quantum tori, and establish an Ulam-stability type phenomenon: every irreducible almost representation is close to a genuine irreducible representation. As an application, we prove that geometric quantizations of the two-dimensional sphere and the two-dimensional torus are conjugate in the semi-classical limit up to a small error.

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Geometric quantization of Hamiltonian flows and the Gutzwiller trace formula

We use the theory of Berezin-Toeplitz operators of Ma and Marinescu to study the quantum Hamiltonian dynamics associated with classical Hamiltonian flows over closed prequantized symplectic manifolds in the context of geometric quantization of Kostant and Souriau. We express the associated evolution operators via parallel transport in the quantum spaces over the induced path of almost complex structures, and we establish various semi-classical estimates. In particular, we establish a Gutzwiller trace formula for the Kostant-Souriau operator and compute explicitly the leading term. We then describe a potential application to contact topology.

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Spectral aspects of the Berezin transform

We discuss the Berezin transform, a Markov operator associated to positive operator valued measures (POVMs), in a number of contexts including the Berezin-Toeplitz quantization, Donaldson's dynamical system on the space of Hermitian products on a complex vector space, representations of finite groups, and quantum noise. In particular, we calculate the spectral gap for quantization in terms of the fundamental tone of the phase space. Our results confirm a prediction of Donaldson for the spectrum of the Q-operator on Kahler manifolds with constant scalar curvature. Furthermore, viewing POVMs as data clouds, we study their spectral features via geometry of measure metric spaces and the diffusion distance.

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Geometric quantization of symplectic maps and Witten's asymptotic conjecture

We use the theory of Berezin-Toeplitz operators of Ma and Marinescu to study the spaces of holomorphic sections of a prequantizing line bundle over compact K\"ahler manifolds under deformations of the complex structure. We show that the parallel transport in the induced vector bundle over the deformation space behaves like a Toeplitz operator, and compute its first coefficient. We then use this result to establish a semi-classical trace formula for the induced quantization of symplectic maps, and give an application to Witten's asymptotic expansion conjecture for the quantum representations of the mapping class group.

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Quantization and isotropic submanifolds

We introduce the notion of an isotropic quantum state associated with a Bohr-Sommerfeld manifold in the context of Berezin-Toeplitz quantization of general prequantized symplectic manifolds, and we study its semi-classical properties using the off-diagonal expansion of the Bergman kernel. We then show how these results extend to the case of non-compact orbifolds, and give an application to relative Poincar\'e series in the theory of automorphic forms.

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