On the geometry of quantum constrained systems

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/25/13/135013MaRDI QIDQ3516223zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alejandro Corichi

Publication date 1 August 2008

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1119

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

Abstract: The use of geometric methods has proved useful in the hamiltonian description of classical constrained systems. In this note we provide the first steps toward the description of the geometry of quantum constrained systems. We make use of the geometric formulation of quantum theory in which unitary transformations (including time evolution) can be seen, just as in the classical case, as finite canonical transformations on the quantum state space. We compare from this perspective the classical and quantum formalisms and argue that there is an important difference between them, that suggests that the condition on observables to become physical is through the double commutator with the square of the constraint operator. This provides a bridge between the standard Dirac procedure --through its geometric implementation-- and the Master Constraint program.

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