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Probing Quantization Via Branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-08-11 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We re-examine quantization via branes with the goal of understanding its relation to geometric quantization. If a symplectic manifold MM can be quantized in geometric quantization using a polarization P{\mathcal P}, and in brane quantization using a complexification YY, then the two quantizations agree if P{\mathcal P} can be analytically continued to a holomorphic polarization of YY. We also show, roughly, that the automorphism group of MM that is realized as a group of symmetries in brane quantization of MM is the group of symplectomorphisms of MM that can be analytically continued to holomorphic symplectomorphisms of YY. We describe from the point of view of brane quantization several examples in which geometric quantization with different polarizations gives equivalent results.

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@article{arxiv.2107.12251,
  title  = {Probing Quantization Via Branes},
  author = {Davide Gaiotto and Edward Witten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.12251},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

101 pp, small corrections in v. 2

R2 v1 2026-06-24T04:31:52.480Z