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The moment map on symplectic vector space and oscillator representation

Representation Theory 2017-10-18 v4

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show that the canonical quantization of the moment maps on symplectic vector spaces naturally gives rise to the oscillator representations. More precisely, let (W,ω)(W,\omega) denote a real symplectic vector space, on which a Lie group GG acts symplectically on the left, where GG denotes a real reductive Lie group Sp(n,R),U(p,q)\mathrm{Sp}(n,\mathbb R), \mathrm U(p,q) or O(2n)\mathrm O^*(2n) in this paper. Then we quantize the moment map μ:Wg0\mu: W \to \mathfrak g_0^*, where g0\mathfrak g_0^* denotes the dual space of the Lie algebra g0\mathfrak g_0 of GG. Namely, after taking a complex Lagrangian subspace VV of the complexification of WW, we assign an element of the Weyl algebra for VV to <μ,X>< \mu, X >, which we denote by <μ^,X>< \hat{\mu}, X >, for each Xg0X \in \mathfrak g_0. It is shown that the map Xi<μ^,X>X \mapsto \mathrm i <\hat{\mu}, X > gives a representation of g0\mathfrak g_0 which extends to the one of g\mathfrak g, the complexification of g0\mathfrak g_0, by linearity. With a suitable choice of the complex Lagrangian subspace VV in each case, the representation coincides with the oscillator representation of g\mathfrak g.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1408.6597,
  title  = {The moment map on symplectic vector space and oscillator representation},
  author = {Takashi Hashimoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6597},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

24pages, no figure; corrected some typos (v2); 27pages, added Section 5 describing a relation between the image of complex Lagrangian subspaces by the moment map and the associated variety of the corresponding irreducible (g,K)-modules (v3); some references are added and replaced (v4)

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