Deformation quantization in the teaching of Lie group representations

DOI10.7546/JGSP-48-2018-79-100MaRDI QIDQ1784697zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexander J. Balsomo, Job A. Nable

Publication date 27 September 2018

Published in Journal of Geometry and Symmetry in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09394, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jgsp/1527127304

zbMATH Keywords

deformation quantizationMoyal star-productunitary representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Deformation quantization, star products (53D55)

Abstract: In this work, we present straightforward and concrete computations of the unitary irreducible representations of the Euclidean motion group $M(2)$ employing the methods of deformation quantization. Deformation quantization is a quantization method of classical mechanics and is an autonomous approach to quantum mechanics, arising from the Wigner quasiprobability distributions and Weyl correspondence. We advertise the utility and power of deformation theory in Lie group representations. In implementing this idea, many aspects of the method of orbits is also learned, thus further adding to the mathematical toolkit of the beginning graduate student of physics. Furthermore, the essential unity of many topics in mathematics and physics (such as Lie groups and Lie algebras, quantization, functional analysis and symplectic geometry) is witnessed, an aspect seldom encountered in textbooks, in an elementary way.

Review text

The authors give a detailed presentation based on the example of the Euclidean motion group \(M(2)\) of the method for recovering unitary irreducible representations of Lie groups by using the so-called star-products on the corresponding coadjoint orbits. This method was introduced by \textit{D. Arnal} and \textit{J. C. Cortet} in the years 1980--1990, see in particular [J. Funct. Anal. 92, No. 1, 103--135 (1990; Zbl 0726.22011)].

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