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Symplectic geometry, wigner-weyl-moyal calculus, and quantum mechanics, in phase space ; Part 1
(2006)
Symplectic geometry, wigner-weyl-moyal calculus, and quantum mechanics, in phase space ; Part 2
(2006)
Symplectic geometry, wigner-weyl-moyal calculus, and quantum mechanics, in phase space ; Part 3
(2006)
The aim of this paper is to express the Conley-Zehnder index of a symplectic path in terms of an index due to Leray and which has been studied by one of us in a previous work. This will allow us to prove a formula for the Conley-Zehnder index of the product of two symplectic paths in terms of a symplectic Cayley transform. We apply our results to a rigorous study of the Weyl representation of metaplectic operators, which plays a crucial role in the understanding of semiclassical quantization of Hamiltonian systems exhibiting chaotic behavior.
We show that the Schrodinger equation in phase space proposed by Torres-Vega and Frederick is canonical in the sense that it is a natural consequence of the extended Weyl 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
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
A classical theorem of Stone and von Neumann states that the Schrodinger representation is, up to unitary equivalences, the only irreducible representation of the Heisenberg group on the Hilbert space of square-integrable functions on configuration space. Using the Wigner-Moyal transform, we construct an irreducible representation of the Heisenberg group on a certain Hilbert space of square-integrable functions defined on phase space. This allows us to extend the usual Weyl calculus into a phase-space calculus and leads us to a quantum mechanics in phase space, equivalent to standard quantum mechanics. We also briefly discuss the extension of metaplectic operators to phase space and the probabilistic interpretation of the solutions of the phase-space Schrodinger equation