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Explicit Spectral Analysis for Operators Representing the unitary group $\mathbb{U}(d)$ and its Lie algebra $\mathfrak{u}(d)$ through the Metaplectic Representation and Weyl Quantization

Spectral Theory 2025-07-30 v2

Abstract

In this article we compute and analyze the spectrum of operators defined by the metaplectic representation μ\mu on the unitary group U(d)\mathbb{U}(d) or operators defined by the corresponding induced representation dμd\mu of the Lie algebra u(d)\mathfrak{u}(d). It turns out that the point spectrum of both types of operators can be expressed in terms of the eigenvalues of the corresponding matrices. For each Au(d)A\in\mathfrak{u}(d), it is known that the selfadjoint operator HA=idμ(A)H_A=-i d\mu(A) has a quadratic Weyl symbol and we will give conditions on to guarantee that it has discrete spectrum. Under those conditions, using a known result in combinatorics, we show that the multiplicity of the eigenvalues of HAH_A is (up to some explicit translation and scalar multiplication) a quasi polynomial of degree d1d-1. Moreover, we show that counting eigenvalues function behaves as an Ehrhart polynomial. Using the latter result, we prove a Weyl's law for the operators HAH_A.

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@article{arxiv.2412.18728,
  title  = {Explicit Spectral Analysis for Operators Representing the unitary group $\mathbb{U}(d)$ and its Lie algebra $\mathfrak{u}(d)$ through the Metaplectic Representation and Weyl Quantization},
  author = {Fabián Belmonte and Giuseppe de Nittis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.18728},
  year   = {2025}
}