@unpublished{Gosson2005, author = {Gosson, Maurice A. de}, title = {On the Weyl representation of metaplectic operators}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-29865}, year = {2005}, abstract = {We study the Weyl representation of metaplectic operators associated to a symplectic matrix having no non-trivial fixed point, and justify a formula suggested in earlier work of Mehlig and Wilkinson. We give precise calculations of the associated Maslov-type indices; these indices intervene in a crucial way in Gutzwiller's formula of semiclassical mechanics, and are simply related to an index defined by Conley and Zehnder.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Gosson2005, author = {Gosson, Maurice A. de}, title = {Extended Weyl calculus and application to the phase-space Schr{\"o}dinger equation}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-29879}, year = {2005}, abstract = {We show that the Schr¨odinger equation in phase space proposed by Torres-Vega and Frederick is canonical in the sense that it is a natural consequence of the extendedWeyl calculus obtained by letting the Heisenberg group act on functions (or half-densities) defined on phase space. This allows us, in passing, to solve rigorously the TF equation for all quadratic Hamiltonians.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Gosson2006, author = {Gosson, Maurice A. de}, title = {Symplectic geometry, Wigner-Weyl-Moyal calculus, and quantum mechanics in phase space}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-30212}, year = {2006}, abstract = {Contents: Part I: Symplectic Geometry Chapter 1: Symplectic Spaces and Lagrangian Planes Chapter 2: The Symplectic Group Chapter 3: Multi-Oriented Symplectic Geometry Chapter 4: Intersection Indices in Lag(n) and Sp(n) Part II: Heisenberg Group, Weyl Calculus, and Metaplectic Representation Chapter 5: Lagrangian Manifolds and Quantization Chapter 6: Heisenberg Group and Weyl Operators Chapter 7: The Metaplectic Group Part III: Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space Chapter 8: The Uncertainty Principle Chapter 9: The Density Operator Chapter 10: A Phase Space Weyl Calculus}, language = {en} }