Existence Theorems for Ordered Variants of Weyl Quantization

  • Daniel A. Dubin

    Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
  • Mark A. Hennings

    Rugby School, UK
  • Thomas B. Smith

    Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

Abstract

We consider some mathematical properties of Weyl-like quantizations based on two families of orderings of : the first family, interpolates between Wick () and antiWick () ordering, while the second family, , interpolates between the () and () orderings. The ordering common to both families is the unordered Weyl system.

The most important property is that of the existence of quantizations. For all orderings and for with quantization is a well-defined map from the tempered distributions on phase space into the continuous linear operators from into . For the orderings with we have to restrict the class of wave functions from to a certain dense subset of it, and the resulting quantization procedure sends tempered distributions on phase space into sesquilinear forms on this subspace. For Wick ordering itself we have not been able to find any useable quantization scheme, and we doubt whether any one exists that is based on tempered distributions.

We also consider questions of boundedness, and determine the matrix coefficients for the quantizations of phase space functions of radius or of angle. In particular, we consider various quantizations of the angle function in phase space.

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Cite this article

Daniel A. Dubin, Mark A. Hennings, Thomas B. Smith, Existence Theorems for Ordered Variants of Weyl Quantization. Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci. 35 (1999), no. 1, pp. 1–29

DOI 10.2977/PRIMS/1195144188