Quantization of Planck's constant

DOI10.4310/JSG.2016.V14.N2.A6zbMATH Open1350.53107arXiv1309.1068MaRDI QIDQ326643FDOQ326643

Authors: Eli Hawkins 

Publication date: 12 October 2016

Published in: The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is about the role of Planck's constant, $hbar$, in the geometric quantization of Poisson manifolds using symplectic groupoids. In order to construct a strict deformation quantization of a given Poisson manifold, one can use all possible rescalings of the Poisson structure, which can be combined into a single "Heisenberg-Poisson" manifold. The new coordinate on this manifold is identified with $hbar$. I present an explicit construction for a symplectic groupoid integrating a Heisenberg-Poisson manifold and discuss its geometric quantization. I show that in cases where $hbar$ cannot take arbitrary values, this is enforced by Bohr-Sommerfeld conditions in geometric quantization. A Heisenberg-Poisson manifold is defined by linearly rescaling the Poisson structure, so I also discuss nonlinear variations and give an example of quantization of a nonintegrable Poisson manifold using a presymplectic groupoid. In appendices, I construct symplectic groupoids integrating a more general class of Heisenberg-Poisson manifolds constructed from Jacobi manifolds and discuss the parabolic tangent groupoid.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.1068

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zbMATH Keywords

geometric quantizationBohr-Sommerfeld conditionsPlanck's constantPoisson manifoldsstrict deformation quantizationsymplectic groupoids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantizations, deformations for selfadjoint operator algebras (46L65) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17)

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