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The contact geometric structure of the thermodynamic phase space is used to introduce a novel symplectic structure on the tangent bundle of the equilibrium space. Moreover, it turns out that the equilibrium space can be interpreted as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Luis Aragon-Munoz , Hernando Quevedo

A natural explicit condition is given ensuring that an action of the multiplicative monoid of non-negative reals on a manifold F comes from homotheties of a vector bundle structure on F, or, equivalently, from an Euler vector field. This is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-05-28 Janusz Grabowski , Mikolaj Rotkiewicz

The article explores a new formalism for describing motion in quantum mechanics. The construction is based on generalized coherent states with evolving fiducial vector. Weyl-Heisenberg coherent states are utilised to split quantum systems…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-10 Artur Miroszewski

It is shown that the nature of physical time requires the extended phase-space in mechanics to have a bundle structure with time as the 1-dimensional base manifold and the phase space as the fiber. This bundle picture of the extended phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-20 Pankaj Sharan

The Wigner-Weyl isomorphism for quantum mechanics on a compact simple Lie group $G$ is developed in detail. Several New features are shown to arise which have no counterparts in the familiar Cartesian case. Notable among these is the notion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Mukunda , G. Marmo , Alessandro Zampini , S. Chaturvedi , R. Simon

We address the phase space formulation of a noncommutative extension of quantum mechanics in arbitrary dimension, displaying both spatial and momentum noncommutativity. By resorting to a covariant generalization of the Weyl-Wigner transform…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Catarina Bastos , Orfeu Bertolami , Nuno Costa Dias , João Nuno Prata

We discuss the dynamical quantum systems which turn out to be bi-unitary with respect to the same alternative Hermitian structures in a infinite-dimensional complex Hilbert space. We give a necessary and sufficient condition so that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Marmo , G. Scolarici , A. Simoni , F. Ventriglia

Extended Schwinger's quantization procedure is used for constructing quantum mechanics on a manifold with a group structure. The considered manifold $M$ is a homogeneous Riemannian space with the given action of isometry transformation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-07 N. Chepilko , A. Romanenko

We will consider here some dynamics of the tangent map, weaker than hyperbolicity, and we will discuss if these structures are rich enough to provide a good description of the dynamics from a topological and geometrical point of view. This…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Enrique R. Pujals

The phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics has recently seen increased use in testing quantum technologies, including metho ds of tomography for state verification and device validation. Here, an overview of quantum mechanics in phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-05 Russell P Rundle , Mark J Everitt

It is shown that quantum mechanics on noncommutative (NC) spaces can be obtained by canonical quantization of some underlying constrained systems. Noncommutative geometry arises after taking into account the second class constraints…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Deriglazov

In quantum gravity, one looks for alternative structures to spacetime physics than ordinary real manifolds. Here, we propose an alternative universal construction containing the latter as an equilibrium state under the action of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-16 Johan Noldus

A theory of double affine and special double affine bundles, i.e. differential manifolds with two compatible (special) affine bundle structures, is developed as an affine counterpart of the theory of double vector bundles. The motivation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-22 Janusz Grabowski , Mikolaj Rotkiewicz , Pawel Urbanski

Classical field theories together with the Lagrangian and Eulerian approaches to continuum mechanics are embraced under a geometric setting of a fiber bundle. The base manifold can be either the body manifold of continuum mechanics, space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Raz Kupferman , Elihu Olami , Reuven Segev

Motivated by the rich geometry of conformal Riemannian manifolds and by the recent development of geometries modeled on homogeneous spaces $G/P$ with $G$ semisimple and $P$ parabolic, Weyl structures and preferred connections are introduced…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andreas Cap , Jan Slovak

The coupling of the tangent bundle $TM$ with the Lie algebra bundle $L$ (K.Mackenzie,2005, Definition 7.2.2) plays the crucial role in the classification of the transitive Lie algebroids for Lie algebra bundle $L$ with fixed finite…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-10-23 Xiaoyu Li , Alexander S. Mishchenko

A simple geometric procedure is proposed for constructing Wick symbols on cotangent bundles to Riemannian manifolds. The main ingredient of the construction is a method of endowing the cotangent bundle with a formal K\"ahler structure. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 I. V. Gorbunov , S. L. Lyakhovich , A. A. Sharapov

In this paper we consider a manifold with a dynamical vector field and inquire about the possible tangent bundle structures which would turn the starting vector field into a second order one. The analysis is restricted to manifolds which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-23 J. F. Cariñena , J. Clemente-Gallardo , J. A. Jover-Galtier , G. Marmo

Quantum groups lead to an algebraic structure that can be realized on quantum spaces. These are noncommutative spaces that inherit a well defined mathematical structure from the quantum group symmetry. In turn such quantum spaces can be…

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-30 J. Wess

We investigate the geometric and conformally equivariant quantizations of the supercotangent bundle of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, which is a model for the phase space of a classical spin particle. This is a short review of our…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jean-Philippe Michel