On the quantization of polygon spaces

DOI10.4310/AJM.2010.V14.N1.A6zbMATH Open1206.47095arXiv0806.1585MaRDI QIDQ609474FDOQ609474

Authors: Laurent Charles 

Publication date: 1 December 2010

Published in: The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Moduli spaces of polygons have been studied since the nineties for their topological and symplectic properties. Under generic assumptions, these are symplectic manifolds with natural global action-angle coordinates. This paper is concerned with the quantization of these manifolds and of their action coordinates. Applying the geometric quantization procedure, one is lead to consider invariant subspaces of a tensor product of irreducible representations of SU(2). These quantum spaces admit natural sets of commuting observables. We prove that these operators form a semi-classical integrable system, in the sense that they are Toeplitz operators with principal symbol the square of the action coordinates. As a consequence, the quantum spaces admit bases whose vectors concentrate on the Lagrangian submanifolds of constant action. The coefficients of the change of basis matrices can be estimated in terms of geometric quantities. We recover this way the already known asymptotics of the classical 6j-symbols.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1585

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zbMATH Keywords

symplectic reductionToeplitz operatorsgeometric quantization\(6j\)-symbolcanonical baseLagrangian sectionpolygon space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Algebras of specific types of operators (Toeplitz, integral, pseudodifferential, etc.) (47L80) Symplectic structures of moduli spaces (53D30) Geometric quantization (53D50)

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