Paths of canonical transformations and their quantization

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Authors Maurice de Gosson

Publication date 6 October 2015

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.03137

zbMATH Keywords

canonical transformationsdouble coveringHamiltonian flowsmetaplectic representationquantizationWeyl correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to harmonic analysis on Euclidean spaces (42-02) One-parameter semigroups and linear evolution equations (47D06) Geometric quantization (53D50) Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10) Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H15) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

Abstract: In their simplest formulations, classical dynamics is the study of Hamiltonian flows and quantum mechanics that of propagators. Both are linked, and emerge from the datum of a single classical concept, the Hamiltonian function. We study and emphasize the analogies between Hamiltonian flows and quantum propagators; this allows us to verify G. Mackey's observation that quantum mechanics (in its Weyl formulation) is a refinement of Hamiltonian mechanics. We discuss in detail the metaplectic representation, which very explicitly shows the close relationship between classical mechanics and quantum mechanics, the latter emerging from the first by lifting Hamiltonian flows to the double covering of the symplectic group. We also give explicit formulas for the factorization of Hamiltonian flows into simpler flows, and prove a quantum counterpart of these results.

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