Quantization as a Consequence of the Symmetry Group: An Approach to Geometric Quantization

Mar, 1982
36 pages
Published in:
  • J.Math.Phys. 23 (1982) 1297
Report number:
  • Print-82-0145 (VALENCIA)

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Abstract: (AIP)
A method is proposed to obtain the dynamics of a system which only makes use of the group law. It incorporates many features of the traditional geometric quantization program as well as the possibility of obtaining the classical dynamics: The classical or quantum character of the theory is related to the choice of the group, avoiding thus the need of quantizing preexisting classical systems and providing a group connection between the quantum and classical systems, i.e., the classical limit. The method is applied to the free‐particle dynamics and the harmonic oscillator.
  • QUANTIZATION: GEOMETRICAL
  • GROUP THEORY: LIE
  • APPROXIMATION: CLASSICAL
  • MODEL: OSCILLATOR
  • SYMMETRY: U(1)
  • MATHEMATICAL METHODS: FIBRE BUNDLE
  • PARTICLE: NONRELATIVISTIC
  • MATHEMATICAL METHODS: DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY
  • GROUP THEORY: LORENTZ