Higher asymptotics of unitarity in ``quantization commutes with reduction

DOI10.1007/S00209-010-0755-9zbMATH Open1232.53079arXiv0810.4933OpenAlexW2101456115MaRDI QIDQ658340FDOQ658340

Authors: William D. Kirwin 

Publication date: 12 January 2012

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let M be a compact Kaehler manifold equipped with a Hamiltonian action of a compact Lie group G. In [Invent. Math. 67 (1982), no.~3, 515--538], Guillemin and Sternberg showed that there is a geometrically natural isomorphism between the G-invariant quantum Hilbert space over M and the quantum Hilbert space over the symplectic quotient M//G. This map, though, is not in general unitary, even to leading order in h-bar. In [Comm. Math. Phys. 275 (2007), no.~2, 401--422], Hall and the author showed that when the metaplectic correction is included, one does obtain a map which, while not in general unitary for any fixed h-bar, becomes unitary in the semiclassical limit that h-bar goes to zero. (cf. the work of Ma and Zhang in [C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris 341 (2005), no.~5, 297--302], and [Ast'erisque No. 318 (2008), viii+154 pp.]). The unitarity of the classical Guillemin--Sternberg map and the metaplectically corrected analogue is measured by certain functions on the symplectic quotient M//G. In this paper, we give precise expressions for these functions, and compute complete asymptotic expansions for them as h-bar goes to zero.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4933

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionsymplectic reductionLaplace's methodgeometric quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric quantization (53D50)

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