Questions tagged [quantization]
Questions on various methods and aspects of quantization
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Quantization of $S^2$ as $C^*$-algebra?
The general context for the question - is belief that quantization of compact symplectic manifolds can be endowed with the structure of $C^*$-algebra (see MO230695).
The particular question is about ...
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Existence/characterization/properties of $C^*$-algebras which "are" quantization of compact symplectic manifolds?
Understanding of "quantization" achieved much progress recent years, especially after Kontsevich breakthrough on deformation quantization, where he proved one-to-one correspondence between Poisson ...
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Squeezing physics out of formal deformation quantizations
I am reading various texts concerning the concept of "quantization". I am interested in quantization on Riemannian manifolds (as opposed to just on $\Bbb R ^n$); for absolute clarity, I am interested ...
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From symplectic manifold to Hilbert spaces [closed]
What could be a mathematical model of such physical wish? I'm looking for something sending a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ to a Hilbert space $H_{M}$ with the following properties:
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Ambidexterity and Quantization
Here the nlab says about Hopkins-Lurie's ambidexterity paper:
"The discussion in the article is apparently motivated as part of what it takes to make precise the discussion of quantization in ...
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Hamiltonian group actions in the context of holomorphic line bundles
When studying Hamiltonian group actions, a very nice set up might be to take the following:
Let $M$ be a compact Kähler manifold with (integral) Kähler form $\omega$, endowed with a Hamiltonian $G$ ...
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higher order Noether identities
Noether's second variational theorem gives a correspondence between symmetries of a Lagrangian and Noether identities, which are relations among the Euler–Lagrange equations.
How about relations ...
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Reference of $\hbar$-differential operator from symplectic geometry perspective
I am reading Bates and Weinstein's book 'Lectures on the Geometry of Quantization'. In Chapter 6, they defined the $\hbar$-differential operator, and showed (Theorem 6.7) that the Lagrangian ...
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Implementation of the bounded-distance decoder of Leech-lattice?
Hi all,
I am wondering, anybody can help me how can I find an implemented version of Leech-Lattice quantizer/decoder, i.e., "Matlab", "C++" or "Python" code, using the approach proposed by Ofer ...
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The function algebra $C^{\infty}(M\#N)$ of the connected sum of two spaces
Operations such as taking union or Cartesian products of spaces have direct analogues in term of algebra of functions on them (direct sum and tensor product, respectively),
my question is:
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Deformation quantization of a closed Riemann surface with genus >1
Quantization of of an elliptic curve can be done in different ways.
In C^*-algebraic version,
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graded generalization of the Moyal–Weyl product
Has anyone written about the graded generalization of the Moyal–Weyl product/star product, that is, where the original algebra is already graded? Is it just a matter of signs?
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Equivalence of star products on two differents Poisson algebras?
Let $A$, $B$ be two commutative and associative $\mathbb k$-algebras and let $A_\hbar:=A[[\hbar]]$, $B_\hbar:=B[[\hbar]]$ be the corresponding ring of formal series. Of sense [Deformation theory and ...
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Projective volume form
Upon reading K. Costello's paper on Witten genus, I wonder when, on a smooth (quasi-)projective variety $X$, the canonical bundle $\omega_X$ admits a left $D$-module structure (other than the Calabi-...
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Quantization by cohomology
Ok, so I have heard some cool stuff here and there about how to Quantize Yang-Mills via cohomology, can anyone refer any texts in the literature that have shed some light on this, I mean I have some ...
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Fractional Derivatives [closed]
How far these Theories of "Fractional Derivatives" be rigorized ? I have few books and references on Fractional Differential Equations etc (mainly they stress on Applied Mathematics parts and similar ...
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Physical meaning of the integral cohomology condition in Souriau-Kostant pre-quantization?
The question is in the title. The form of the condition looks like the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization formula of angular momentum, is there a link between the two formulas?
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What are the implications of torsion in H^2 for geometric quantization?
Given a real manifold $M$ with symplectic $2$-form $\omega$,
one can ask whether the cohomology class $[\omega] \in H^2(M;{\mathbb R})$ lies in the image of
$H^2(M;{\mathbb Z})$. If so, one can ask ...
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On the definition of ‘smooth vectors’ in Rieffel's “Deformation Quantization for Actions of $ \mathbb{R}^{d} $”.
On the first page of Chapter 1 of Rieffel's Deformation Quantization for Actions of $ \mathbb{R}^{d} $, Rieffel defines a family of seminorms on the space $ A^{\infty} $ of smooth vectors of a Fréchet ...
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Absent 2nd order terms in deformation quantization of Poisson manifolds
I am reading Kontsevich' famous paper on deformation quantization of Poisson manifolds. In section 1.4.2 on page 4 he gives the general formula for the star product associated to a Poisson structure ...
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Formal series convergence in deformation quantization and $C^*$-condition
A link between formal series convergence in deformation quantization (strict deformation quantization) and producing $C^*$-algebras instead of mere $*$-algebras (which $(\mathcal{C}^{\infty}(M)[[t]],\...
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Bohr topos and quantization
Bohrification is a natural way to construct a quantum "phase space" (with some nice insights on foundational problems like non-contextuality through Kochen-Specker etc). I was wondering, since we get ...
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choices of connection in prequantization
In the definition of pre-quantization of representation $f\to \hat{f}$, (here $\hat{f}$ is Hermitian operator)of $C^{\infty}(M)$ on $L^2(M,L,\mu)$ where $\mu$ is Hermitian form, suppose that there ...
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Does the vanishing of the Poisson bracket on $S(\mathfrak{g})^{\mathfrak{g}}$ inspire the disover of Duflo's isomorphism theorem?
For any finite dimensional Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$, we know that the universal enveloping algebra $U(\mathfrak{g})$ is a deformation of the symmetric algebra $S(\mathfrak{g})$. In fact let's define
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Reconciling two notions of geometric quantization.
Let $(M,\omega)$ be a compact symplectic manifold and $(L,\nabla)$ a prequantum line bundle. There are two schemes to quantize this data:
Choose a polarization $P$ of $M$ and define the quantum ...
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D-modules as quantization of modules on cotangent bundle
If we have filtration on D-module compatible with some good filtration on differential operators sheaf then adjoint graded module is module over functions on cotangent bundle. So morally D-module is ...
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Is the quantum algebra unique (up to isomorphism) in deformation quantization ?
Consider a Poisson algebra A (i.e. commutative algebra with Poisson bracket).
Let $\hat A$ be a deformation quantization of the algebra A. We know that construction of deformation quantization and ...
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Higgs mechanism from a deformation quantization point of view
Is it possible to describe the Higgs mechanism from a deformation quantization point of view? How would one do it? Are there aspects of the Higgs mechanism and Higgs particle which one may see clearer ...
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Problem of quantization: state of the art
The "problem of quantization":
Find a vector space $Obs$ (as large as possible) of real-valued functions $f(p, q)$ on $R^{2n}$, containing the coordinate ...
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Problem of quantization: state of the art [closed]
As the title suggests, I'm interested in finding out the state-of-the-art in the problem of quantization.
Any suggestions and/or feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Regards.
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What is the definition of "the $L_\infty$ part of a $G_\infty$ morphism"?
We know that in Tamarkin's proof of Kontsevich's formality theorem, he defined the $G_\infty$ structure on the Hochschild cochain complex $C^\cdot(A,A)$ and constructed a $G_\infty$ morphism from $HH^\...
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Coherent states vs quantization of Lagrangian submanifold
Coherent states http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_states
are vectors in the Hilbert space which in certain sense are strongly localized
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Lagrangian Submanifolds in Deformation Quantization
Suppose I have a symplectic manifold $M$, and have a deformation quantization of it, i.e. an associative product $\ast:C(M)[[\hbar]]\otimes C(M)[[\hbar]]\to C(M)[[\hbar]]$ so that $f\ast g=fg+\{f,g\}\...
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BKS pairing for distributional sections
I am trying to understand the Blattner-Kostant-Sternberg pairing as it applies to geometric quantization in real polarizations whose integral manifolds are, for simplicity, compact. I have been trying ...
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Kontsevich's formality theorem from an explicit homotopy
Suppose that $X$ is a smooth manifold, whose $C^{\infty}$-functions we denote by $A$. Let $D_{poly}^*(A):=\bigoplus_{n\geq -1}Hom(A^{\otimes n+1},A)$ be the Lie algebra of polydifferential operators ...
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