Deformation quantization of constrained systems: a group averaging approach
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Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Deformation quantization, star products (53D55) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45)
Abstract: Motivated by certain concepts introduced by the Refined Algebraic Quantization formalism for constrained systems which has been successfully applied within the context of Loop Quantum Gravity, in this paper we propose a phase space implementation of the Dirac quantization formalism to appropriately include systems with constraints. In particular, we propose a physically prescribed Wigner distribution which allows the definition of a well-defined inner product by judiciously introducing a star version of the group averaging of the constraints. This star group averaging procedure is obtained by considering the star-exponential of the constraints and then integrating with respect to a suitable measure. In this manner, the proposed physical Wigner distribution explicitly solves the constraints by including generalized functions on phase space. Finally, in order to illustrate our approach, our proposal is tested in a couple of simple examples which recover standard results found in the literature.
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