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Symmetry Reduction of States II: A non-commutative Positivstellensatz for CPn

We give a non-commutative Positivstellensatz for CP^n: The (commutative) *-algebra of polynomials on the real algebraic set CP^n with the pointwise product can be realized by phase space reduction as the U(1)-invariant polynomials on C^{1+n}, restricted to the real (2n+1)-sphere inside C^{1+n}, and Schmüdgen's Positivstellensatz gives an algebraic description of the real-valued U(1)-invariant polynomials on CP^n that are strictly pointwise positive on the sphere. In analogy to this commutative case, we consider a non-commutative *-algebra of polynomials on C^{1+n}, the Weyl algebra, and give an algebraic description of the real-valued U(1)-invariant polynomials that are positive in certain *-representations on Hilbert spaces of holomorphic sections of line bundles over CP^n. It is especially noteworthy that the non-commutative result applies not only to strictly positive, but to all positive elements. As an application, all *-representations of the quantization of the polynomial *-algebra on CP^n, obtained e.g. through phase space reduction or Berezin--Toeplitz quantization, are determined.