Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One Poisson geometry and morita equivalence
- Part Two Formality and star products
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The star product
- 3 Rephrasing the main problem: the formality
- 4 Digression: what happens in the dual
- 5 The Kontsevich formula
- 6 From local to global deformation quantization
- Bibliography
- Part Three Lie groupoids, sheaves and cohomology
- Part Four Geometric methods in representation theory
- Part Five Deformation theory: a powerful tool in physics modelling
- Index
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One Poisson geometry and morita equivalence
- Part Two Formality and star products
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The star product
- 3 Rephrasing the main problem: the formality
- 4 Digression: what happens in the dual
- 5 The Kontsevich formula
- 6 From local to global deformation quantization
- Bibliography
- Part Three Lie groupoids, sheaves and cohomology
- Part Four Geometric methods in representation theory
- Part Five Deformation theory: a powerful tool in physics modelling
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005