An obstruction to quantization of the sphere

DOI10.1007/S00220-008-0517-2MaRDI QIDQ958161zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eli Hawkins

Publication date 2 December 2008

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.2946

zbMATH Keywords

deformation quantizationWeyl quantizationgeometric quantizationFedosov quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deformation quantization, star products (53D55) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Geometric quantization (53D50)

Abstract: In the standard example of strict deformation quantization of the symplectic sphere $S^2$, the set of allowed values of the quantization parameter $hbar$ is not connected; indeed, it is almost discrete. Li recently constructed a class of examples (including $S^2$) in which $hbar$ can take any value in an interval, but these examples are badly behaved. Here, I identify a natural additional axiom for strict deformation quantization and prove that it implies that the parameter set for quantizing $S^2$ is never connected.

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