Berezin-Toeplitz quantization on Lie groups (Q999852)

The set-up for this paper consists of three objects first introduced by the author in [J.~Funct.\ Anal.\ 122, No.\,1, 103--151 (1994; Zbl 0838.22004)]. First, there is the Hilbert space \(L^2(K,dx)\), where \(K\) is a connected compact semisimple Lie group and \(dx\) is Haar measure on \(K\). This is known as the Schrödinger space. Second, there is the Hilbert space \(\mathcal{H}L^2(K_{\mathbb{C}},\nu_t)\) of all the holomorphic functions in \(L^2(K_{\mathbb{C}},\nu_t)\), where \(K_{\mathbb{C}}\) is the Lie group complexification of \(K\) and \(\nu_t\) is the \(K\)-invariant heat kernel on \(K_{\mathbb{C}}\). This is known as the generalized Segal-Bargmann space. Thirdly, there is an onto, unitary isomorphism \(C_t:L^2(K, dx) \to\mathcal{H}L^2(K_{\mathbb{C}},\nu_t)\), which is the \(C\)~version of the generalized Segal-Bargmann transform. The first result (Theorem~1) is the representation as Toeplitz operators on the generalized Segal-Bargmann space of multiplication operators (in physics: potentials) on the Schrödinger space under conjugation by \(C_t\). A rather restrictive hypothesis is made about the potential. This is the subject of Sections~3 and~5. This result was announced by the author in reference [Contemp.\ Math.\ 214, 47--62 (1998; Zbl 0898.22002)] published ten years earlier. The second result (Theorem~2) is the representation (again as Toeplitz operators) on the generalized Segal-Bargmann space under conjugation by \(C_t\) of differential operators on the Schrödinger space. While this includes the previous result as a special case, the proof is actually based on that first result. Of course, the same restrictive hypothesis is made. This is the subject of Section~4. Some particular cases of Theorem~2 were already discussed in the author's 1998 paper [op.\,cit.]. In this reviewer's opinion, the results are quite interesting, since they clarify the general problem of understanding first quantization.