Geometry and uncertainty

DOI10.1063/1.528922zbMath0697.46041OpenAlexW2051125081MaRDI QIDQ3473657

Francis J. Narcowich

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528922

zbMATH Keywords

Legendre transformWigner distribution functionPoincaré invariantsdirections of minimal uncertaintydual Wigner ellipsoidfinite covarianceuncertainty relations invariant under affine canonical transformationsWigner-Weyl phase space formulation of quantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Commutators, derivations, elementary operators, etc. (47B47) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Miscellaneous applications of functional analysis (46N99)

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• The \(C^ *\)-algebras of a free Boson field
• \(C^ *\)-algèbres des systèmes canoniques. I
• A Dyson-like expansion for solutions to the quantum Liouville equation
• The problem of moments in the phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics
• Conditions for the convolution of two Wigner distributions to be itself a Wigner distribution
• Gaussian quantum stochastic processes on the CCR algebra
• On the Algebraic Problem Concerning the Normal Forms of Linear Dynamical Systems

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