Semiclassical structure of trace formulas

DOI10.1063/1.528949zbMath0718.47033OpenAlexW2063169203MaRDI QIDQ5749858

Robert G. Littlejohn

Publication date: 1990

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528949

zbMATH Keywords

Wigner functioncausticsWeyl correspondenceTrace formulasintersections of Lagrangian manifolds in phase space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Linear operators belonging to operator ideals (nuclear, (p)-summing, in the Schatten-von Neumann classes, etc.) (47B10) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)

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