Composition formulas in the Weyl calculus (Q2391265): Difference between revisions

The main purpose of this highly technical paper is to develop a symbolic calculus for pseudodifferential operators of Weyl type which is based on the decomposition of symbols (as functions on \(\mathbb R^n _x\times\mathbb R^n_\xi\)) into superpositions of homogeneous symbols with homogeneity degrees lying on the complex line with real part \(-n\). In fact, while the standard \(sharp\) composition formula for symbols in the Weyl calculus has the action of the group of translations in \(\mathbb R^{2n}\) on the Weyl quantization as its motivation, the calculus developed in this paper is based on another covariance property of the Weyl calculus, related to metaplectic representations in \(\mathbb R^n \). We may also mention that whereas the classical Weyl calculus is based on the (symplectic) Fourier transform, the present calculus starts from a decomposition of symbols into hyperplane waves and is in terms of integral operators with highly singular kernels. The calculus extends the one-dimensional case developed in connection with automorphic analysis [see, e.g., \textit{A. Unterberger}, Quantization and non-holomorphic modular forms. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1742. Berlin: Springer-Verlag (2000; Zbl 0970.11014)].