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This thesis discusses and proposes a solution for one problem arising from deformation quantization:
Having constructed the quantization of a classical system, one would like to understand its mathematical properties (of both the classical and quantum system). Especially if both systems are described by ∗-algebras over the field of complex numbers, this means to understand the properties of certain ∗-algebras:
What are their representations? What are the properties of these representations? How
can the states be described in these representations? How can the spectrum of the observables be
described?
In order to allow for a sufficiently general treatment of these questions, the concept of abstract O ∗-algebras is introduced. Roughly speaking, these are ∗ -algebras together with a cone of positive linear functionals on them (e.g. the continuous ones if one starts with a ∗-algebra that is endowed with a well-behaved topology). This language is then applied to two examples from deformation quantization, which will be studied in great detail.
This doctoral thesis provides a classification of equivariant star products (star products together with quantum momentum maps) in terms of equivariant de Rham cohomology. This classification result is then used to construct an analogon of the Kirwan map from which one can directly obtain the characteristic class of certain reduced star products on Marsden-Weinstein reduced symplectic manifolds from the equivariant characteristic class of their corresponding unreduced equivariant star product. From the surjectivity of this map one can conclude that every star product on Marsden-Weinstein reduced symplectic manifolds can (up to equivalence) be obtained as a reduced equivariant star product.
To study coisotropic reduction in the context of deformation quantization we introduce constraint manifolds and constraint algebras as the basic objects encoding the additional information needed to define a reduction. General properties of various categories of constraint objects and their compatiblity with reduction are examined. A constraint Serre-Swan theorem, identifying constraint vector bundles with certain finitely generated projective constraint modules, as well as a constraint symbol calculus are proved. After developing the general deformation theory of constraint algebras, including constraint Hochschild cohomology and constraint differential graded Lie algebras, the second constraint Hochschild cohomology for the constraint algebra of functions on a constraint flat space is computed.