A resolvent approach to the real quantum plane (Q464261)

Let \(q\neq\pm 1\) be a complex number of modulus one. This paper deals with the operator relation \(AB=qBA\) for self-adjoint operators \(A\) and \(B\) on a Hilbert space. The authors give a number of reformulations of this operator relation in terms of the resolvent \(R_\lambda(A)\) and \(B\), the resolvent \(R_\lambda(B)\) and \(A\), and the resolvents \(R_\lambda(A)\) and \(R_\lambda(B)\), and study the largest linear subspace on which the relation holds. Two classes of well-behaved representations of this relation are studied in detail and characterized by resolvent equations. All irreducible pairs of these classes are built of self-adjoint operators \(e^{\alpha Q}\) and \(e^{\beta P}\) on the Hilbert space \(L^2({\mathbb R})\), where \(Q = x\), \(P = i \frac{d}{dx}\) and \(\alpha, \beta\in {\mathbb R}\).