Geometric construction of \(*\)-representations of the Weyl algebra with degree 2 (Q679141): Difference between revisions

Summary: Let \(W_2\) denote the Weyl algebra generated by self-adjoint elements \(\{p_j,q_j\}_{j=1,2}\) satisfying the canonical commutation relations. In this paper we discuss \(*\)-representations \(\{\pi\}\) of \(W_2\) such that \(\pi(p_j)\) and \(\pi(q_j)\) \((j=1,2)\) are essentially self-adjoint operators but \(\pi\) is not exponentiable to a representation of the associated Weyl system. We first construct a class of such \(*\)-representations of \(W_2\) by considering a non-simply connected space \(\Omega=\mathbb{R}^2\setminus \{{\mathbf a}_1,\dots,{\mathbf a}_N\}\) and a one-dimensional representations of the fundamental group \(\pi_1(\Omega)\). Non-exponentiability of those \(*\)-representations comes from the geometry of the universal covering space \(\widetilde\Omega\) of \(\Omega\). Then we show that our \(*\)-representations of \(W_2\) are related, by unitary equivalence, with Reeh-Arai's ones, which are based on a quantum system on the plane under a perpendicular magnetic field with singularities at \({\mathbf a}_1,\dots,{\mathbf a}_N\), and, by doing that, we classify the Reeh-Arai's \(*\)-representations up to unitary equivalence. We further discuss extension and irreducibility of those \(*\)-representations. Finally, for the \(*\)-representations of \(W_2\), we calculate the defect numbers which measure the distance to the exponentiability.