THE SCHWINGER REPRESENTATION OF A GROUP: CONCEPT AND APPLICATIONS

DOI10.1142/S0129055X06002802zbMATH Open1113.81086OpenAlexW2070237645MaRDI QIDQ3422243FDOQ3422243

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Publication date 9 February 2007

Published in Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0505012

zbMATH Keywords

Wigner distributionSchwinger representationcompact semi-simple Lie groupsWigner-Weyl isomorphismmajorana representation for spinSchwinger oscillator construction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

Abstract: The concept of the Schwinger Representation of a finite or compact simple Lie group is set up as a multiplicity-free direct sum of all the unitary irreducible representations of the group. This is abstracted from the properties of the Schwinger oscillator construction for SU(2), and its relevance in several quantum mechanical contexts is highlighted. The Schwinger representations for $SU(2),SO(3)$ and SU(n) for all $n$ are constructed via specific carrier spaces and group actions. In the SU(2) case connections to the oscillator construction and to Majorana's theorem on pure states for any spin are worked out. The role of the Schwinger Representation in setting up the Wigner-Weyl isomorphism for quantum mechanics on a compact simple Lie group is brought out.

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