Volume 189, No. 1 (1999), 117-152
Victor Nistor, Alan Weinstein and Ping Xu
Pseudodifferential operators on differential groupoids
Abstract:
We construct an algebra of pseudodifferential operators on each
groupoid in a class that generalizes differentiable groupoids to
allow
manifolds with corners. We show that this construction encompasses
many examples. The subalgebra of regularizing operators is identified
with the smooth algebra of the groupoid, in the sense of
non-commutative geometry. Symbol calculus for our algebra lies in the
Poisson algebra of functions on the dual of the Lie algebroid of the
groupoid. As applications, we give a new proof of the
Poincare-Birkhoff-Witt theorem for Lie algebroids and a concrete
quantization of the Lie-Poisson structure on the dual A*
of a Lie
algebroid.
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