Questions tagged [quantization]
Questions on various methods and aspects of quantization
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How to see the Phase Space of a Physical System as the Cotangent Bundle
Two things today motivated this question.
First, the professor said that in a lecture Thurston mentioned
Any manifold can be seen as the configuration space of some physical system.
Clearly we ...
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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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Does quantum mechanics ever really quantize classical mechanics?
I was curious about a physics question which I thought might be suitable for mathoverflow. I looked at the answer to this question, but it's not what I'm looking for.
Basically, classical mechanics ...
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What are Harish-Chandra bimodules used for?
There are many recent papers on classification of Harish-Chandra bimodules for rational Cherednik algebras and, more generally, non-commutative algebras which are quantizations of symplectic ...
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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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basic questions on quantum integrable systems
I have been learning about (classical) integrable systems lately, e.g. in the examples of a Lax pair etc. I frequently run into the term 'quantum integrable system'. May I ask a few questions:
What ...
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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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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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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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On prequantization bundles over integral symplectic manifolds
I am trying to clarify certain subtleties regarding prequantization bundles over symplectic manifolds, for which I haven't found any clear explanation so far.
Let me fix some definitions first.
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