Given a Hodge manifold, it is introduced a self-adjoint operator on the space of endomorphisms of the global holomorphic sections of the polarization line bundle. Such operator is shown to approximate the Laplace operator on functions when composed with Berezin-Toeplitz quantization map and its adjoint, up to an error which tends to zero when taking higher powers of the polarization line bundle.

Let $D$ be a holomorphic differential operator acting on sections of a holomorphic vector bundle on an $n$-dimensional compact complex manifold. We prove a formula, conjectured by Feigin and Shoikhet, giving the Lefschetz number of $D$ as the integral over the manifold of a differential form. The class of this differential form is obtained via formal differential geometry from the canonical generator of the Hochschild cohomology $H{H}^{2n}({𝒟}_n,{𝒟}_n^{*})$ of the algebra of differential operators on a formal neighbourhood of a...