Deformation quantization and unitary representations of the Euclidean motion group

Authors

  • Alexander Jimena Balsomo Department of Mathematics, West Visayas State University
  • Job Nable Department of Mathematics, Ateneo de Manila University

Abstract

As an autonomous quantization procedure, deformation quantization describes quantum mechanics as a deformed classical mechanics by introducing a noncommutative but associative ⋆-product on the space of C-functions on a symplectic manifold. In this paper, we demonstrate to construct and classify unitary irreducible representations of a Lie group, in particular, the Euclidean motion group M(2) via deformation quantization. These representations uniquely correspond with infinite cylinders, generated by the coadjoint action of M(2) on the dual of its Lie algebra. Via the chart defined by the cylindrical coordinate system, an M(2)-covariant Moyal ⋆-product gives rise to representations of the Lie algebra of M(2). The exponentiation of these representations are exactly the desired unitary representations of M(2).

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Article ID

SPP-2018-1D-05

Section

Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Published

2018-05-23

How to Cite

[1]
AJ Balsomo and J Nable, Deformation quantization and unitary representations of the Euclidean motion group, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 36, SPP-2018-1D-05 (2018). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2018-1D-05.