Coherent state quantization of constraint systems
Apr, 199635 pages
Published in:
- Annals Phys. 254 (1997) 419-453
- Published: Mar 1, 1997
e-Print:
- quant-ph/9604033 [quant-ph]
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Abstract:
A careful reexamination of the quantization of systems with first- and second-class constraints from the point of view of coherent-state phase-space path integration reveals several significant distinctions from more conventional treatments. Most significantly, we emphasize the importance of using path-integral measures for Lagrange multipliers which ensure that the quantum system satisfies the quantum constraint conditions. Our procedures involve no delta-functionals of the classical constraints, no need for gauge fixing of first-class constraints, no need to eliminate second-class constraints, no potentially ambiguous determinants, and have the virtue of resolving differences between canonical and path-integral approaches. Several examples are considered in detail.Note:
- Latex, 38 pages, no figures
- quantization: constraint
- Hamiltonian formalism
- path integral
- coherent state
- phase space: Hilbert space
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