That strange procedure called quantisation

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Authors Domenico Giulini

Publication date 22 July 2004

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0304202

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac's quantisationquantum field theoryquantum gravityquantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Review text

From the {Introduction and Motivation}: ``My intention is rather a pedagogical one: to acquaint the non-experts with some of the basic structural results in quantisation theory, which I feel should be known to anybody who intends to `quantise' something. A central result is the theorem of Groenewold and van Hove, which is primarily a no-go result, stating that the most straightforward axiomatisation of Dirac's informally presented `canonical' quantisation rules runs into contradictions and therefore has to be relaxed. The constructive value of this theorem lies in the fact that its proof makes definite suggestions for such relaxations. ``The present contribution deliberately takes focus on a very particular and seemingly formal point, in order to exemplify in a controllable setting the care needed in formulating `rules' for `quantisation'. At the end I will also briefly consider constrained systems from a slightly more `global' point of view. Two appendices provide some technical aspects. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1024.00069].

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