Quantization on a two-dimensional phase space with a constant curvature tensor. (Q1413146)

The authors deal with the quantum description of systems with nontrivial phase spaces, using the formalism of deformation quantization. In this formalism, observables and states are represented by generalized functions in the cotangent bundle of a manifold, which plays the role of phase space of the system under consideration. The basic idea in the deformation quantization method is the replacement of the standard commutative product of functions by a non-commutative product, usually called the star product. The main subject of this paper is the study of physical systems with curved phase spaces using the Fedosov approach to deformation quantization. More specifically, this method is applied to a two-dimensional phase space with globally constant curvature tensor. The results are compared with the solutions for the flat symplectic space \(\mathbb{R}^2\), which are obtained as limits of the solutions obtained in the curved situation.