14.01.2026, 14:00 - 16:00
– Campus Golm, Building 9, Room 2.22 and via Zoom
Institutskolloquium
Getting to the chore of things
Christian Mercat (Lyon 1)
We describe a natural construction of deformation quantization on a compact symplectic manifold with boundary. On the algebra of quantum observables a trace functional is defined which as usual annihilates the commutators. This gives rise to an index as the trace of the unity element. We formulate the index theorem as a conjecture and examine it by the classical harmonic oscillator.