Representations of the infinite unitary group from constrained quantization

is compact, originally found by Kirillov and Ol'shanskii, through constrained quantization of its coadjoint orbits. For this purpose the coadjoint orbits are realized as Marsden-Weinstein quotients. The unconstrained system, given as a Weinstein dual pair, is quantized by a corresponding Howe dual pair. Constrained quantization is then performed in replacing the classical procedure of symplectic reduction by the

C^{*}

-algebraic method of Rieffel induction. Reduction and induction have to be performed with respect to either

U (M)

, which is straightforward, or

U (M, N)

. In the latter case one induces from holomorphic discrete series representations, and the desired result is obtained if one ignores half-forms, and induces from a ep, `half' of whose highest weight is shifted relative to the naive orbit correspondence. This is only possible when

H

is finite-dimensional.

Review text

Let \(U_0(\mathcal H)\) be the Banach Lie group of all unitary operators \(U\) on a separable Hilbert space \(\mathcal H\) for which \(U - \mathbb{I}\) is compact, equipped with the norm topology. The goal of the paper is to reconstruct the irreducible unitary representations of \(U_0(\mathcal H)\), classified by Kirillov and Ol'shanskii, using constrained quantization of the coadjoint orbits. A Weinstein dual pair, \(U_0(\mathcal H)\rightarrow\mathcal H\otimes\mathbb{C}^M\otimes\overline{\mathbb{C}}^N \leftarrow U(M,N)\), is reduced with respect to \(U(M,N)\) (\(M\), \(N\) finite). Coadjoint orbits \(\mathcal O_{({\mathbf m},{\mathbf n})}\) are labeled by pairs \(({\mathbf m},{\mathbf n})\), where \({\mathbf m}\) (\({\mathbf n}\)) is an ordered \(M\)- (\(N\)-) tuple of positive integers. Any such orbit is shown to be symplectomorphic to a Marsden-Weinstein quotient. The quantization of the Weinstein dual pair is done by the Fock space technique while the \(C^\ast\)-algebraic technique of Rieffel induction is employed to quantize the Marsden-Weinstein reduction process. The induction procedure is quite straightforward for \(N=0\). The case with \(N>0\) turns out, however, to be essentially more complicated and is carried out only when \(\mathcal H\) is finite-dimensional.

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