Inequivalent quantizations and holonomy factor from the path-integral approach

DOI10.1006/APHY.1997.5696zbMATH Open0924.58009arXivhep-th/9609089OpenAlexW2005471061MaRDI QIDQ1290480FDOQ1290480

Shogo Tanimura, Izumi Tsutsui

Publication date: 11 November 1999

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A path-integral quantization on a homogeneous space G/H is proposed based on the guiding principle `first lift to G and then project to G/H'. It is then shown that this principle gives a simple procedure to obtain the inequivalent quantizations (superselection sectors) along with the holonomy factor (induced gauge field) found earlier by algebraic approaches. We also prove that the resulting matrix-valued path-integral is physically equivalent to the scalar-valued path-integral derived in the Dirac approach, and thereby present a unified viewpoint to discuss the basic features of quantizing on $G/H$ obtained in various approaches so far.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9609089

zbMATH Keywords

path-integral quantizationinequivalent quantizations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) Geometric quantization (53D50)

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