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Cohomology of the Vector Fields Lie Algebra and Modules of Differential Operators on a Smooth Manifold

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2007

P. B. A. Lecomte
Affiliation:
Institute de Mathématiques, Université de Liège, Sart Tilman, Grande Traverse, 12 (B 37), B-4000 Liège, Belgium. E-mail: plecomte@ulg.ac.be
V. Yu. Ovsienko
Affiliation:
C.N.R.S., Centre de Physique Théorique, Luminy – Case 907, F–13288 Marseille, Cedex 9, France. E-mail: ovsienko@cpt.univ-mrs.fr
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Abstract

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Let M be a smooth manifold, ${\cal S}$ the space of polynomial on fibers functions on T*M (i.e., of symmetric contravariant tensor fields). We compute the first cohomology space of the Lie algebra, Vect(M), of vector fields on M with coefficients in the space of linear differential operators on ${\cal S}$. This cohomology space is closely related to the Vect(M)-modules, ${\cal D}$λ(M), of linear differential operators on the space of tensor densities on M of degree λ.

Type
Research Article
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