Quantization of polysymplectic manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2019.103480MaRDI QIDQ2331501zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 29 October 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12961

geometric quantization Kähler reduction moment maps multisymplectic quantization polysymplectic manifolds prequantization quantizable

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Geometric quantization (53D50)

Abstract: We adapt the framework of geometric quantization to the polysymplectic setting. Considering prequantization as the extension of symmetries from an underlying polysymplectic manifold to the space of sections of a Hermitian vector bundle, a natural definition of prequantum vector bundle is obtained which incorporates in an essential way the action of the space of coefficients. We define quantization with respect to a polarization and to a spin

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structure. In the presence of a complex polarization, it is shown that the polysymplectic Guillemin-Sternberg conjecture is false. We conclude with potential extensions and applications.

Review text

This paper studies geometric quantizations of polysymplectic manifolds. By definition, a polysymplectic manifold is a smooth manifold equipped with a closed and nondegenerate 2-form with values in a given vector space. Polysymplectic manifolds bear many properties similar to those of symplectic manifolds; for example, the author introduces the notion of Hamiltonian vector fields, Hamiltonian functions and symplectic reductions for them. Suppose \(M\) is a polysymplectic manifold, then one of the key concepts in this paper is the prequantization of \(M\), which consists of a Hermitian vector bundle \(E\to M\) and a Lie algebra representation of the observables on the space of sections of \(E\) which preserves the inner product and the Hamiltonian vector fields. A polysymplectic symplectic manifold is said to be quantizable if it admits a prequantization. In the main body of the paper, the author studies various geometric structures relating to prequantizations of a polysymplectic manifold, and in particular, he shows that the polysymplectic Guillemin-Sternberg conjecture, i.e., the Kähler reduction commuting with the quantization, does not hold in general. The author concludes his paper with a discussion of potential interactions with Chern-Simons theory, multisymplectic quantization, and quantum field theory.

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