Geometric Quantization

Author : Jedrzej Sniatycki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461260660

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Geometric Quantization and Quantum Mechanics by Jedrzej Sniatycki Pdf

This book contains a revised and expanded version of the lecture notes of two seminar series given during the academic year 1976/77 at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Calgary, and in the summer of 1978 at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Technical University Clausthal. The aim of the seminars was to present geometric quantization from the point of view· of its applica tions to quantum mechanics, and to introduce the quantum dynamics of various physical systems as the result of the geometric quantization of the classical dynamics of these systems. The group representation aspects of geometric quantiza tion as well as proofs of the existence and the uniqueness of the introduced structures can be found in the expository papers of Blattner, Kostant, Sternberg and Wolf, and also in the references quoted in these papers. The books of Souriau (1970) and Simms and Woodhouse (1976) present the theory of geometric quantization and its relationship to quantum mech anics. The purpose of the present book is to complement the preceding ones by including new developments of the theory and emphasizing the computations leading to results in quantum mechanics.

Author : Sean Bates,Alan Weinstein
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0821807986

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Lectures on the Geometry of Quantization by Sean Bates,Alan Weinstein Pdf

These notes are based on a course entitled ``Symplectic Geometry and Geometric Quantization'' taught by Alan Weinstein at the University of California, Berkeley (fall 1992) and at the Centre Emile Borel (spring 1994). The only prerequisite for the course needed is a knowledge of the basic notions from the theory of differentiable manifolds (differential forms, vector fields, transversality, etc.). The aim is to give students an introduction to the ideas of microlocal analysis and the related symplectic geometry, with an emphasis on the role these ideas play in formalizing the transition between the mathematics of classical dynamics (hamiltonian flows on symplectic manifolds) and quantum mechanics (unitary flows on Hilbert spaces). These notes are meant to function as a guide to the literature. The authors refer to other sources for many details that are omitted and can be bypassed on a first reading.

Author : N.E. Hurt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789400969636

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Geometric Quantization in Action by N.E. Hurt Pdf

Approach your problems from the right It isn't that they can't see the solution. It end and begin with the answers. Then, is that they can't see the problem. one day, perhaps you will fmd the final question. G. K. Chesterton, The Scandal of Father Brown 'The Point of a Pin'. 'The Hermit Clad in Crane Feathers' in R. Van Gulik's The Chinese Maze Murders. Growing specialization and diversification have brought a host of monographs and textbooks on increasingly specialized topics. However, the 'tree' of knowledge of mathematics and related fields does not grow only by putting forth new branches. It also happens, quite often in fact, that branches which were thought to be completely disparate are suddenly seen to be related. Further, the kind and level of sophistication of mathematics applied in various sciences has changed drastically in recent years: measure theory is used (non-trivially) in regional and theoretical economics; algebraic geo metry interacts with physics; the Minkowsky lemma, coding theory and the structure of water meet one another in packing and covering theory; quantum fields, crystal defects and mathematical progmmming profit from homotopy theory; Lie algebras are relevant to fIltering; and prediction and electrical engineering can use Stein spaces.

Author : Nicholas Michael John Woodhouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0198502702

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Geometric Quantization by Nicholas Michael John Woodhouse Pdf

The geometric approach to quantization was introduced by Konstant and Souriau more than 20 years ago. It has given valuable and lasting insights into the relationship between classical and quantum systems, and continues to be a popular research topic. The ideas have proved useful in pure mathematics, notably in representation theory, as well as in theoretical physics. The most recent applications have been in conformal field theory and in the Jones-Witten theory of knots. The successful original edition of this book was published in 1980. Now it has been completely revised and extensively rewritten. The presentation has been simplified and many new examples have been added. The material on field theory has been expanded.

Author : Mircea Puta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789401119924

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Hamiltonian Mechanical Systems and Geometric Quantization by Mircea Puta Pdf

This volume presents various aspects of the geometry of symplectic and Poisson manifolds, and applications in Hamiltonian mechanics and geometric quantization are indicated. Chapter 1 presents some general facts about symplectic vector space, symplectic manifolds and symplectic reduction. Chapter 2 deals with the study of Hamiltonian mechanics. Chapter 3 considers some standard facts concerning Lie groups and algebras which lead to the theory of momentum mappings and the Marsden--Weinstein reduction. Chapters 4 and 5 consider the theory and the stability of equilibrium solutions of Hamilton--Poisson mechanical systems. Chapters 6 and 7 are devoted to the theory of geometric quantization. This leads, in Chapter 8, to topics such as foliated cohomology, the theory of the Dolbeault--Kostant complex, and their applications. A discussion of the relation between geometric quantization and the Marsden--Weinstein reduction is presented in Chapter 9. The final chapter considers extending the theory of geometric quantization to Poisson manifolds, via the theory of symplectic groupoids. Each chapter concludes with problems and solutions, many of which present significant applications and, in some cases, major theorems. For graduate students and researchers whose interests and work involve symplectic geometry and Hamiltonian mechanics.

Author : N.E. Hurt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1982-12-31
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9027714266

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Geometric Quantization in Action by N.E. Hurt Pdf

Approach your problems from the right It isn't that they can't see the solution. It end and begin with the answers. Then, is that they can't see the problem. one day, perhaps you will fmd the final question. G. K. Chesterton, The Scandal of Father Brown 'The Point of a Pin'. 'The Hermit Clad in Crane Feathers' in R. Van Gulik's The Chinese Maze Murders. Growing specialization and diversification have brought a host of monographs and textbooks on increasingly specialized topics. However, the 'tree' of knowledge of mathematics and related fields does not grow only by putting forth new branches. It also happens, quite often in fact, that branches which were thought to be completely disparate are suddenly seen to be related. Further, the kind and level of sophistication of mathematics applied in various sciences has changed drastically in recent years: measure theory is used (non-trivially) in regional and theoretical economics; algebraic geo metry interacts with physics; the Minkowsky lemma, coding theory and the structure of water meet one another in packing and covering theory; quantum fields, crystal defects and mathematical progmmming profit from homotopy theory; Lie algebras are relevant to fIltering; and prediction and electrical engineering can use Stein spaces.

Author : Jean-Luc Brylinski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780817647315

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Loop Spaces, Characteristic Classes and Geometric Quantization by Jean-Luc Brylinski Pdf

This book examines the differential geometry of manifolds, loop spaces, line bundles and groupoids, and the relations of this geometry to mathematical physics. Applications presented in the book involve anomaly line bundles on loop spaces and anomaly functionals, central extensions of loop groups, Kähler geometry of the space of knots, and Cheeger--Chern--Simons secondary characteristics classes. It also covers the Dirac monopole and Dirac’s quantization of the electrical charge.

Author : Alexander Cardona,Pedro Morales,Hernán Ocampo,Sylvie Paycha,Andrés F. Reyes Lega
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319654270

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Quantization, Geometry and Noncommutative Structures in Mathematics and Physics by Alexander Cardona,Pedro Morales,Hernán Ocampo,Sylvie Paycha,Andrés F. Reyes Lega Pdf

This monograph presents various ongoing approaches to the vast topic of quantization, which is the process of forming a quantum mechanical system starting from a classical one, and discusses their numerous fruitful interactions with mathematics.The opening chapter introduces the various forms of quantization and their interactions with each other and with mathematics.A first approach to quantization, called deformation quantization, consists of viewing the Planck constant as a small parameter. This approach provides a deformation of the structure of the algebra of classical observables rather than a radical change in the nature of the observables. When symmetries come into play, deformation quantization needs to be merged with group actions, which is presented in chapter 2, by Simone Gutt.The noncommutativity arising from quantization is the main concern of noncommutative geometry. Allowing for the presence of symmetries requires working with principal fiber bundles in a non-commutative setup, where Hopf algebras appear naturally. This is the topic of chapter 3, by Christian Kassel. Nichols algebras, a special type of Hopf algebras, are the subject of chapter 4, by Nicolás Andruskiewitsch. The purely algebraic approaches given in the previous chapters do not take the geometry of space-time into account. For this purpose a special treatment using a more geometric point of view is required. An approach to field quantization on curved space-time, with applications to cosmology, is presented in chapter 5 in an account of the lectures of Abhay Ashtekar that brings a complementary point of view to non-commutativity.An alternative quantization procedure is known under the name of string theory. In chapter 6 its supersymmetric version is presented. Superstrings have drawn the attention of many mathematicians, due to its various fruitful interactions with algebraic geometry, some of which are described here. The remaining chapters discuss further topics, as the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism and direct products of spectral triples.This volume addresses both physicists and mathematicians and serves as an introduction to ongoing research in very active areas of mathematics and physics at the border line between geometry, topology, algebra and quantum field theory.

Author : Paul Lee Robinson,John Howard Rawnsley
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780821824733

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The Metaplectic Representation, $Mp^c$ Structures and Geometric Quantization by Paul Lee Robinson,John Howard Rawnsley Pdf

Author : Young S. Kim,Woodford W. Zachary
Publisher : Springer
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540479017

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The Physics of Phase Space by Young S. Kim,Woodford W. Zachary Pdf

The concept of phase space plays a decisive role in the study of the transition from classical to quantum physics. This is particularly the case in areas such as nonlinear dynamics and chaos, geometric quantization and the study of the various semi-classical theories, which are the setting of the present volume. Much of the content is devoted to the study of the Wigner distribution. This volume gives the first complete survey of the progress made by both mathematicians and physicists. It will serve as an excellent reference for further research.

Author : Sergey Novikov,Igor Krichever,Oleg Ogievetsky,Senya Shlosman
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781470455910

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Integrability, Quantization, and Geometry: I. Integrable Systems by Sergey Novikov,Igor Krichever,Oleg Ogievetsky,Senya Shlosman Pdf

This book is a collection of articles written in memory of Boris Dubrovin (1950–2019). The authors express their admiration for his remarkable personality and for the contributions he made to mathematical physics. For many of the authors, Dubrovin was a friend, colleague, inspiring mentor, and teacher. The contributions to this collection of papers are split into two parts: “Integrable Systems” and “Quantum Theories and Algebraic Geometry”, reflecting the areas of main scientific interests of Dubrovin. Chronologically, these interests may be divided into several parts: integrable systems, integrable systems of hydrodynamic type, WDVV equations (Frobenius manifolds), isomonodromy equations (flat connections), and quantum cohomology. The articles included in the first part are more or less directly devoted to these areas (primarily with the first three listed above). The second part contains articles on quantum theories and algebraic geometry and is less directly connected with Dubrovin's early interests.

Author : D. J. Simms,N. M. J. Woodhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3662191687

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Lectures on Geometric Quantization by D. J. Simms,N. M. J. Woodhouse Pdf

Author : Victor Guillemin,Shlomo Sternberg
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780821816332

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Geometric Asymptotics by Victor Guillemin,Shlomo Sternberg Pdf

Symplectic geometry and the theory of Fourier integral operators are modern manifestations of themes that have occupied a central position in mathematical thought for the past three hundred years--the relations between the wave and the corpuscular theories of light. The purpose of this book is to develop these themes, and present some of the recent advances, using the language of differential geometry as a unifying influence.

Author : Ernst Binz,Sonja Pods
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Heisenberg uncertainty principle
ISBN : 9780821844953

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The Geometry of Heisenberg Groups by Ernst Binz,Sonja Pods Pdf

"The three-dimensional Heisenberg group, being a quite simple non-commutative Lie group, appears prominently in various applications of mathematics. The goal of this book is to present basic geometric and algebraic properties of the Heisenberg group and its relation to other important mathematical structures (the skew field of quaternions, symplectic structures, and representations) and to describe some of its applications. In particular, the authors address such subjects as signal analysis and processing, geometric optics, and quantization. In each case, the authors present necessary details of the applied topic being considered." "This book manages to encompass a large variety of topics being easily accessible in its fundamentals. It can be useful to students and researchers working in mathematics and in applied mathematics."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Claus Gerhardt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319773711

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The Quantization of Gravity by Claus Gerhardt Pdf

​A unified quantum theory incorporating the four fundamental forces of nature is one of the major open problems in physics. The Standard Model combines electro-magnetism, the strong force and the weak force, but ignores gravity. The quantization of gravity is therefore a necessary first step to achieve a unified quantum theory. In this monograph a canonical quantization of gravity has been achieved by quantizing a geometric evolution equation resulting in a gravitational wave equation in a globally hyperbolic spacetime. Applying the technique of separation of variables we obtain eigenvalue problems for temporal and spatial self-adjoint operators where the temporal operator has a pure point spectrum with eigenvalues $\lambda_i$ and related eigenfunctions, while, for the spatial operator, it is possible to find corresponding eigendistributions for each of the eigenvalues $\lambda_i$, if the Cauchy hypersurface is asymptotically Euclidean or if the quantized spacetime is a black hole with a negative cosmological constant. The hyperbolic equation then has a sequence of smooth solutions which are products of temporal eigenfunctions and spatial eigendistributions. Due to this "spectral resolution" of the wave equation quantum statistics can also be applied to the quantized systems. These quantum statistical results could help to explain the nature of dark matter and dark energy.