Dirac and normal states on Weyl-von Neumann algebras

DOI10.1007/S11005-021-01367-4zbMATH Open1462.81115arXiv2011.04239OpenAlexW3100877488MaRDI QIDQ829983FDOQ829983

Authors: Günther Hörmann 

Publication date: 7 May 2021

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

Abstract: We study particular classes of states on the Weyl algebra $mathcalW$ associated with a symplectic vector space $S$ and on the von Neumann algebras generated in representations of $mathcalW$. Applications in quantum physics require an implementation of constraint equations, e.g., due to gauge conditions, and can be based on so-called Dirac states. The states can be characterized by nonlinear functions on $S$ and it turns out that those corresponding to non-trivial Dirac states are typically discontinuous. We discuss general aspects of this interplay between functions on $S$ and states, but also develop an analysis for a particular example class of non-trivial Dirac states. In the last part, we focus on the specific situation with $S=L^2(mathbb{R}^n)$ or test functions on $mathbb{R}^n$ and relate properties of states on $mathcalW$ with those of generalized functions on $mathbb{R}^n$ or with harmonic analysis aspects of corresponding Borel measures on Schwartz functions and on temperate distributions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04239

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zbMATH Keywords

Weyl algebrageneralized functionsquantization with constraintsmeasures on non-locally compact groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operations with distributions and generalized functions (46F10) States of selfadjoint operator algebras (46L30) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Topological linear spaces of test functions, distributions and ultradistributions (46F05) Geometric quantization (53D50)

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