The symmetric tensor Lichnerowicz algebra and a novel associative Fourier-Jacobi algebra

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2007.089MaRDI QIDQ2473493zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Karl Hallowell, Andrew K. Waldron

Publication date 27 February 2008

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3164, https://eudml.org/doc/53971, http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/2007/089/

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zbMATH Keywords

Fourier-Jacobi algebrashigher spinsoperator orderingssymmetric tensors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of local Riemannian geometry (53B21) Geometric quantization (53D50) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Groups and algebras in quantum theory (81R99) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

Abstract: Lichnerowicz's algebra of differential geometric operators acting on symmetric tensors can be obtained from generalized geodesic motion of an observer carrying a complex tangent vector. This relation is based upon quantizing the classical evolution equations, and identifying wavefunctions with sections of the symmetric tensor bundle and Noether charges with geometric operators. In general curved spaces these operators obey a deformation of the Fourier-Jacobi Lie algebra of sp(2,R). These results have already been generalized by the authors to arbitrary tensor and spinor bundles using supersymmetric quantum mechanical models and have also been applied to the theory of higher spin particles. These Proceedings review these results in their simplest, symmetric tensor setting. New results on a novel and extremely useful reformulation of the rank 2 deformation of the Fourier-Jacobi Lie algebra in terms of an associative algebra are also presented. This new algebra was originally motivated by studies of operator orderings in enveloping algebras. It provides a new method that is superior in many respects to common techniques such as Weyl or normal ordering.

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