Continuity of magnetic Weyl calculus (Q630795)

The magnetic Weyl calculus gives a functional calculus for the operators of position and magnetic momentum in just the same way in which the classical Weyl calculus is an operator calculus for the positions and momenta, and its key feature is that it is gauge covariant. Some of the very basic ideas of infinite-dimensional Lie theory prove to be very useful for understanding the magnetic Weyl calculus as a Weyl quantization of a certain coadjoint orbit of a semi-direct product group \(M={\mathcal F}\rtimes {\mathbb R}^n\). Here \(\mathcal F\) is a suitable translation-invariant space of smooth functions on \({\mathbb R}^n\) and a coadjoint orbit is associated with a natural unitary representation of \(M\) on \(L^2({\mathbb R}^n)\). This representation theoretic approach to the magnetic Weyl calculus is further treated in the paper under review. The authors introduce appropriate versions of modulation spaces and use them for describing the continuity properties for the magnetic pseudo-differential operators.