Quantum kinematics and geometric quantization

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(96)00008-3MaRDI QIDQ2365157zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Qiang Zhao

Publication date 23 February 1997

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0393-0440(96)00008-3

zbMATH Keywords

Borel kinematics configuration manifold geometric quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric quantization (53D50)

Review text

Two quantization schemes for systems with classical configuration manifold \(Q\) are considered. The first one, developed by \textit{B. Angermann, H. D. Doebner} and \textit{J. Tolar} [Lect. Notes Math. 1037, 171-208 (1983; Zbl 0549.58009)] starts out from the so-called Borel kinematics \((L(Q), X_c(Q))\) on \(Q\), where \(L(Q)\) denotes the \(\sigma\)-algebra of Borel sets on \(Q\) and \(X_c(Q)\) denotes the set of complete smooth vector fields on \(Q\). The second one, developed by J. Souriau, B. Kostant and others [see, e.g., \textit{A. A. Kirillov}, Dynamical systems. IV. Symplectic geometry and its applications, Encycl. Math. Sci. 4, 137-172 (1990); translation from Itogi Nauki Tekh., Ser. Sovrem. Probl. Mat., Fundam. Napravleniya 4, 141-178 (1985; Zbl 0780.58024)] is the so-called geometric quantization scheme, specialized to the situation that the phase space is a cotangent bundle \(T^*Q\). Here one starts out from a canonically given complex line bundle over \(T^*Q\) and uses the polarization given by the fibers of \(T^*Q\). In both cases quantization is achieved by constructing a Hilbert space that is supposed to give the quantum mechanical wave functions in position representation. The goal of the present paper is to show that both schemes are equivalent in a certain sense.

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