Families of Toeplitz operators, family index and deformation quantization

Abstract

Given a contact fibration, we construct smooth families of Szeg\"o projections on the fibers. This allows us to define smooth families of Toeplitz operators. We apply these operators to construct a deformation quantization of prequantizable symplectic fibrations, recovering a result of Kravchenko in an analytic way. We also derive a family index for these families of Toeplitz operators. To this end, we generalize an index formula of Baum and van Erp to families.