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Covariant geometric quantization of non-relativistic Hamiltonian mechanics

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We provide geometric quantization of the vertical cotangent bundle V^*Q equipped with the canonical Poisson structure. This is a momentum phase space of non-relativistic mechanics with the configuration bundle Q -> R. The goal is the Schrodinger representation of V^*Q. We show that this quantization is equivalent to the fibrewise quantization of symplectic fibres of V^*Q -> R, that makes the quantum algebra of non-relativistic mechanics an instantwise algebra. Quantization of the classical evolution equation defines a connection on this instantwise algebra, which provides quantum evolution in non-relativistic mechanics as a parallel transport along time.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0012036,
  title  = {Covariant geometric quantization of non-relativistic Hamiltonian mechanics},
  author = {G. Giachetta and L. Mangiarotti and G. Sardanashvily},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0012036},
  year   = {2007}
}

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17 pages