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We discuss BFV deformation quantization (Bordemann et al. in A homological approach to singular reduction in deformation quantization, singularity theory, pp. 443–461. World Scientific, Hackensack, 2007) in the special case of a linear Hamiltonian torus action. In particular, we show that the Koszul complex on the moment map of an effective linear Hamiltonian torus action is acyclic. We rephrase the nonpositivity condition of Arms and Gotay (Adv Math 79(1):43–103, 1990) for linear Hamiltonian torus actions. It follows that reduced spaces of such actions admit continuous star products.
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Herbig, HC., Iyengar, S.B. & Pflaum, M.J. On the Existence of Star Products on Quotient Spaces of Linear Hamiltonian Torus Actions. Lett Math Phys 89, 101–113 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11005-009-0331-6
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