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Quantum maps and automorphisms

What does it mean to quantize a symplectic map $χ$? In deformation quantization, it means to construct an automorphism of the $*$ algebra associated to $χ$. In quantum chaos it means to construct unitary operators $U_χ$ such that $A \to U_χ A U_χ^*$ defines an automorphism of the algebra of observables. In geometric quantization and in PDE it means to construct a unitary Fourier integral (or Toeplitz) operator associated to the graph of $χ$. We compare the definitions in the setting of Kahler manifolds $(M, g)$. The main result is a Toeplitz analogue of the Duistermaat-Singer theorem on automorphisms of the pseudo-differential algebra, and its extension to non-simply connected phase spaces, which often occur in applications (quantized symplectic torus automorphisms.