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The existing approaches to quantization of gravity aim at giving quantum description of 3-geometry following to the ideas of the Wheeler -- DeWitt geometrodynamics. In this description the role of gauge gravitational degrees of freedom is…

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We develop a mathematically well-defined path integral formalism for general symplectic manifolds. We argue that in order to make a path integral quantization covariant under general coordinate transformations on the phase space and involve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergei V. Shabanov , John R. Klauder

Geometric quantization is a natural way to construct quantum models starting from classical data. In this work, we start from a symplectic vector space with an inner product and -- using techniques of geometric quantization -- construct the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Eli Hawkins , Christoph Minz , Kasia Rejzner

The paper develop the alternative formulation of quantum mechanics known as the phase space quantum mechanics or deformation quantization. It is shown that the quantization naturally arises as an appropriate deformation of the classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-27 Maciej Blaszak , Ziemowit Domanski

The formulation of Geometric Quantization contains several axioms and assumptions. We show that for real polarizations we can generalize the standard geometric quantization procedure by introducing an arbitrary connection on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Carlos Tejero Prieto , Raffaele Vitolo

We generalize the Hamiltonian picture of General Relativity coupled to classical matter, known as geometrodynamics, to the case where such matter is described by a Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime, but gravity is still described by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-20 J. L. Alonso , C. Bouthelier-Madre , J. Clemente-Gallardo , D. Martínez-Crespo

We implement the so-called Weyl-Heisenberg covariant integral quantization in the case of a classical system constrained by a bounded or semi-bounded geometry. The procedure, which is free of the ordering problem of operators, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-04 J. -P. Gazeau , T. Koide , D. Noguera

Geometric properties of operators of quantum Dirac constraints and physical observables are studied in semiclassical theory of generic constrained systems. The invariance transformations of the classical theory -- contact canonical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 A. O. Barvinsky

The aim of this article is to study the functorial properties of the ``formal geometric quantization'' procedure which is defined for non-compact Hamiltonian manifolds (when the moment map is proper). For this purpose, we introduce a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paul-Emile Paradan

We have previously presented a version of the Weak Equivalence Principle for a quantum particle as an exact analog of the classical case, based on the Heisenberg picture analysis of free particle motion. Here, we take that to a full…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Otto C. W. Kong

Classical mechanics is presented here in a unary operator form, constructed using the binary multiplication and Poisson bracket operations that are given in a phase space formalism, then a Gibbs equilibrium state over this unary operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Peter Morgan

In this paper, we investigate the connection between Classical and Quantum Mechanics by dividing Quantum Theory in two parts: - General Quantum Axiomatics (a system is described by a state in a Hilbert space, observables are self-adjoint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Bergeron

The dynamical equation of quantum mechanics are rewritten in form of dynamical equations for the measurable, positive marginal distribution of the shifted, rotated and squeezed quadrature introduced in the so called "symplectic tomography".…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Stefano Mancini , Vladimir I. Man'ko , Paolo Tombesi

We introduce geometric quantization in the setting of shifted symplectic structures. We define Lagrangian fibrations and prequantizations of shifted symplectic stacks and their geometric quantization. In addition, we study many examples…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Pavel Safronov

Quantization together with quantum dynamics can be simultaneously formulated as the problem of finding an appropriate flat connection on a Hilbert bundle over a contact manifold. Contact geometry treats time, generalized positions and…

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The transition from a classical to quantum theory is investigated within the context of orthogonal and symplectic Clifford algebras, first for particles, and then for fields. It is shown that the generators of Clifford algebras have the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-13 Matej Pavšič

For any connected and simply connected parasymplectic space $(\mathrm{X},\omega)$ with group of periods $\mathrm{P}_\omega \subsetneq \mathbf{R}$, we construct a prequantum groupoid $\pmb{\mathrm{T}}_\omega$ as a diffeological quotient of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Patrick Iglesias-Zemmour

The geometrical description of a Hilbert space asociated with a quantum system considers a Hermitian tensor to describe the scalar inner product of vectors which are now described by vector fields. The real part of this tensor represents a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 P. Aniello , J. Clemente-Gallardo , G. Marmo , G. F. Volkert

The application of geometry to physics has provided us with new insightful information about many physical theories such as classical mechanics, general relativity, and quantum geometry (quantum gravity). The geometry also plays an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hoshang Heydari

This thesis, explores the quantum entanglement and evolution through both a geometric and dynamical perspective. The first part focuses on classical phase space and its central role in Hamiltonian mechanics, emphasizing the importance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Jamal Elfakir