The frame bundle picture of Gaussian wave packet dynamics in semiclassical mechanics

DOI10.1007/S11005-019-01206-7zbMATH Open1430.53091arXiv1802.04362OpenAlexW2787127553WikidataQ127253809 ScholiaQ127253809MaRDI QIDQ2011195FDOQ2011195

Authors: Paul Skerritt 

Publication date: 28 November 2019

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently Ohsawa has studied the Marsden-Weinstein-Meyer quotient of the manifold $T^{\ast }mathbb{R}^{n}imes{T}^{\ast }mathbb{R}^{2n^2}$ under a $operatornameO(2n)$-symmetry, and has used this quotient to describe the relationship between two different parametrisations of Gaussian wave packet dynamics commonly used in semiclassical mechanics. In this paper we suggest a new interpretation of (a subset of) the unreduced space as being the frame bundle $mathcalF(T^{\ast }mathbb{R}^n)$ of $T^{\ast }mathbb{R}^n$. We outline some advantages of this interpretation, and explain how it can be extended to more general symplectic manifolds using the notion of the diagonal lift of a symplectic form due to Cordero and de Le'on.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04362

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zbMATH Keywords

symplectic reductionframe bundledual pairsemiclassical mechanicsGaussian wave packet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Symmetries, Lie group and Lie algebra methods for problems in mechanics (70G65) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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