On nonlinear Koopman's construction (Q1387124)

The authors' main interest lies in introducing nonlinearity into the usual picture of quantum dynamical systems. Nonlinear maps are given for classical dynamical systems using a variant of Koopman's construction. Let \({\mathcal A}\) be an abelian unital \(C^*\)-algebra. It is identified, by means of Gelfand transform, with the algebra of continuous functions on the compact topological space \({\mathcal P}\) of all pure states of \({\mathcal A}\). To introduce nonlinearity, the authors consider the free algebra \({\mathcal W}_{\mathcal P}\) generated by \({\mathcal P}\), as the proper extension of the pure state space \({\mathcal P}\). They generalize the classical scheme of going from an invertible continuous map \(\tau\) on \({\mathcal P}\) to the corresponding linear map \(U_\tau\) on \(C({\mathcal P})\). With each such map \(\tau\) and a polynomial of one variable they associate a map \(\theta\) on \({\mathcal W}_{\mathcal P}\). Next they show that each \(\theta\) of this kind can be lifted to a nonlinear map on \(C({\mathcal P})\). The paper ends with the discussion of the noncommutative case.