Geometry of the time-dependent variational principle in quantum mechanics

zbMath0486.49001MaRDI QIDQ1164842

Marcos Saraceno, Peter Kramer

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Lecture Notes in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Lie groupSchrödinger equationPoisson bracketsymplectic structuregeometric quantizationtime-dependent variational principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Geometric quantization (53D50) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to calculus of variations and optimal control (49-02)

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