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When Canonical Quantization Fails, Here is How to Fix It

Quantum Physics 2016-12-02 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Following Dirac, the rules of canonical quantization include classical and quantum contact transformations of classical and quantum phase space variables. While arbitrary classical canonical coordinate transformations exist that is not the case for some analogous quantum canonical coordinate transformations. This failure is due to the rigid connection of quantum variables arising by promoting the corresponding classical variable from a cc-number to a qq-number. A different relationship of cc-numbers and qq-numbers in the procedures of Enhanced Quantization shows the compatibility of all quantum operators with all classical canonical coordinate transformations.

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@article{arxiv.1611.02107,
  title  = {When Canonical Quantization Fails, Here is How to Fix It},
  author = {John R. Klauder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.02107},
  year   = {2016}
}

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7 pages, treats quantum contact transformations

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