Hilbert space structure in classical mechanics. II

DOI10.1063/1.1623334MaRDI QIDQ4833217zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 14 December 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0208047

zbMATH Keywords

Jacobi fieldsmetaplectic groupsymplectic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

One-parameter semigroups and linear evolution equations (47D06) Miscellaneous applications of operator theory (47N99) Symmetries, Lie group and Lie algebra methods for problems in mechanics (70G65) Hamilton's equations (70H05) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05)

Abstract: In this paper we analyze two different functional formulations of classical mechanics. In the first one the Jacobi fields are represented by bosonic variables and belong to the vector (or its dual) representation of the symplectic group. In the second formulation the Jacobi fields are given as condensates of Grassmannian variables belonging to the spinor representation of the metaplectic group. For both formulations we shall show that, differently from what happens in the case presented in paper no. (I), it is possible to endow the associated Hilbert space with a positive definite scalar product and to describe the dynamics via a Hermitian Hamiltonian. The drawback of this formulation is that higher forms do not appear automatically and that the description of chaotic systems may need a further extension of the Hilbert space.

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