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We obtain an anlogue of Wigner's classical theorem on symmetries for Banach spaces. The proof is based on a result from the theory of linear preservers. Moreover, we present two other Wigner-type results for finite dimensional linear spaces…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lajos Molnar

We consider canonical symplectic structure on the moduli space of flat ${\g}$-connections on a Riemann surface of genus $g$ with $n$ marked points. For ${\g}$ being a semisimple Lie algebra we obtain an explicit efficient formula for this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Yu. Alekseev , A. Z. Malkin

Generation of Wigner functions of Landau levels and determination of their symmetries and generic properties are achieved in the autonomous framework of deformation quantization. Transformation properties of diagonal Wigner functions under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Demircioglu , A. Vercin

We propose the assumption of quantum mechanics on a discrete space and time, which implies the modification of mathematical expressions for some postulates of quantum mechanics. In particular we have a Hilbert space where the vectors are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Lorente

Spherical Whittaker functions on the metaplectic n-fold cover of GL(r+1) over a nonarchimedean local field containing n distinct n-th roots of unity may be expressed as the partition functions of statistical mechanical systems that are…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-10 Ben Brubaker , Daniel Bump , Gautam Chinta , Solomon Friedberg , Paul E. Gunnells

In the context of phase-space quantization, matrix elements and observables result from integration of c-number functions over phase space, with Wigner functions serving as the quasi-probability measure. The complete sets of Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-02 Thomas Curtright , Tsuneo Uematsu , Cosmas Zachos

In this article we prove a generalization of Weyl's criterion for the essential spectrum of a self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert space. We then apply this criterion to the Laplacian on functions over open manifolds and get new results for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-29 Nelia Charalambous , Zhiqin Lu

The so-called Weyl transform is a linear map from a commutative algebra of functions to a noncommutative algebra of linear operators, characterized by an action on Cartesian coordinate functions of the form $(x, y) \mapsto (X, Y)$ such that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 August J. Krueger

This paper is part of a series of papers on differential geometry of $C^\infty$-ringed spaces. In this paper, we study vector fields and their flows on a class of singular spaces. Our class includes arbitrary subspaces of manifolds, as well…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Yael Karshon , Eugene Lerman

In the Hilbert space of n qubits, we introduce the symplectic space (n odd) and the orthogonal space (n even) via the spin-flip operator. Under this mathematical structure we discuss some properties of n qubits, including homomorphically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-16 Jian-Wei Xu

We consider the Cauchy-problem for a class of scalar linear dispersive equations with rapidly oscillating initial data. The problem of high-frequency asymptotics of such models is reviewed,in particular we highlight the difficulties in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christof Sparber , Peter A. Markowich , Norbert J. Mauser

We present a comprehensive study of semiclassical phase-space propagation in the Wigner representation, emphasizing numerical applications, in particular as an initial-value representation. Two semiclassical approximation schemes are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-07-01 Thomas Dittrich , Edgar A. Gomez , Leonardo A. Pachon

We study the phase-space concentration of the so-called generalized metaplectic operators whose main examples are Schr\"odinger equations with bounded perturbations. To reach this goal, we perform a so-called $\mathcal{A}$-Wigner analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Elena Cordero , Gianluca Giacchi , Luigi Rodino

We consider the characteristic function of linear spectral statistics of generalized Wigner matrices. We provide an expansion of the characteristic function with error $\mathcal{O} ( N^{-1})$ around its limiting Gaussian form, and identify…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Benjamin Landon

The original Wigner function provides a way of representing in phase space the quantum states of systems with continuous degrees of freedom. Wigner functions have also been developed for discrete quantum systems, one popular version being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kathleen S. Gibbons , Matthew J. Hoffman , William K. Wootters

We generalize double bracket vector fields, originally defined on semisimple Lie algebras, to Poisson manifolds equipped with a pseudo-Riemannian metric by utilizing a symmetric contravariant 2-tensor field. We extend the normal metric on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Petre Birtea , Zohreh Ravanpak , Cornelia Vizman

We study the Weyl-Wigner transform in the case of discrete variables defined in a Hilbert space of finite prime-number dimensionality $N$. We define a family of Weyl-Wigner transforms as function of a phase parameter. We show that it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-24 Ady Mann , Pier A. Mello , Michael Revzen

We introduce the new algebraic property of Weyl compatibility for symmetric tensors and vectors. It is strictly related to Riemann compatibility, which generalizes the Codazzi condition while preserving much of its geometric implications.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 Carlo A. Mantica , Luca G. Molinari

We study symplectic linear algebra over the ring $\Rt$ of Colombeau generalized numbers. Due to the algebraic properties of $\Rt$ it is possible to preserve a number of central results of classical symplectic linear algebra. In particular,…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Sanja Konjik , Guenther Hoermann , Michael Kunzinger

The formalism of generalized Wigner transformations developped in a previous paper, is applied to kinetic equations of the Lindblad type for quantum harmonic oscillator models. It is first applied to an oscillator coupled to an equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Tzanakis , A. P. Grecos , P. Hatjimanolaki