Phase space quantum mechanics on the anti-de Sitter spacetime and its Poincaré contraction

DOI10.1006/APHY.1994.1089zbMATH Open0810.53070arXivhep-th/9210133OpenAlexW3122230534MaRDI QIDQ1338696FDOQ1338696

Amine M. El Gradechi, Stephan De Bièvre

Publication date: 9 April 1995

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

Abstract: In this work we propose an alternative description of the quantum mechanics of a massive and spinning free particle in anti-de~Sitter spacetime, using a phase space rather than a spacetime representation. The regularizing character of the curvature appears clearly in connection with a notion of localization in phase space which is shown to disappear in the zero curvature limit. We show in particular how the anti-de~Sitter optimally localized (coherent) states contract to plane waves as the curvature goes to zero. In the first part we give a detailed description of the classical theory {it a la Souriau/}. This serves as a basis for the quantum theory which is constructed in the second part using methods of geometric quantization. The invariant positive K"ahler polarization that selects the anti-de~Sitter quantum elementary system is shown to have as zero curvature limit the Poincar'e polarization which is no longer K"ahler. This phenomenon is then related to the disappearance of the notion of localization in the zero curvature limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9210133

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zbMATH Keywords

geometric quantizationanti-de Sitter space-timezero curvature limitPoincaré polarization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

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