Ideal Classes of the Weyl Algebra and Noncommutative Projective Geometry (with an Appendix by M. Van den Bergh)

Abstract

Let R be the set of isomorphism classes of ideals in the Weyl algebra $A=A_{1}$, and let C be the set of isomorphism classes of triples (V; X, Y), where V is a finite-dimensional (complex) vector space, and X, Y are endomorphisms of V such that [X,Y]+I has rank 1. Following a suggestion of L. Le Bruyn, we define a map $\theta: R \to C$ by appropriately extending an ideal of A to a sheaf over a quantum projective plane, and then using standard methods of homological algebra. We prove that $\theta$ is inverse to a bijection $\omega: C \to R$ constructed in \cite{BW} by a completely different method. The main step in the proof is to show that $\theta$ is equivariant with respect to natural actions of the group G=Aut(A) on R and C: for that we have to study also the extensions of an ideal to certain weighted quantum projective planes. Along the way, we find an elementary description of \theta.