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 quantizationFedosov quantizationgeometric quantizationWeyl quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

The quantization of an arbitrary manifold is a deep and subtle problem in mathematical physics. Here the author considers the case of the standard sphere from the viewpoint of the deformation quantization. Various definitions which appear in the literature are reviewed and compared and the variation are collected in a table form. The favorite one is the so called \textit{order \(n\) strict deformation quantization} and the conclusion is that no scheme than of second order should be considered as a real quantization.

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