Geometric quantization & quantum mechanics

By: Sniatyeki, JedrzejMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York: Springer Verlag, [c1980]Description: 230 pISBN: 9780387904696Subject(s): MathematicsLOC classification: QA1
Contents:
1. Introduction 2. Hamiltonian Dynamics 3. Prequantization 4. Representation Space 5. Blattner-Kostant-Sternberg Kernels 6. Quantization 7. Schrödinger Representation 8. Other Representations 9. Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation 10. Relativistic Dynamics in an Electromagnetic Field 11. Pauli Representation for Spin
Summary: This book contains a revised and expanded version of the lecture notes of two seminar series given during the academic year 1976/77 at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Calgary, and in the summer of 1978 at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Technical University Clausthal. The aim of the seminars was to present geometric quantization from the point of view· of its applica­ tions to quantum mechanics, and to introduce the quantum dynamics of various physical systems as the result of the geometric quantization of the classical dynamics of these systems. The group representation aspects of geometric quantiza­ tion as well as proofs of the existence and the uniqueness of the introduced structures can be found in the expository papers of Blattner, Kostant, Sternberg and Wolf, and also in the references quoted in these papers. The books of Souriau (1970) and Simms and Woodhouse (1976) present the theory of geometric quantization and its relationship to quantum mech­ anics. The purpose of the present book is to complement the preceding ones by including new developments of the theory and emphasizing the computations leading to results in quantum mechanics.
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1. Introduction
2. Hamiltonian Dynamics
3. Prequantization
4. Representation Space
5. Blattner-Kostant-Sternberg Kernels
6. Quantization
7. Schrödinger Representation
8. Other Representations
9. Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation
10. Relativistic Dynamics in an Electromagnetic Field
11. Pauli Representation for Spin

This book contains a revised and expanded version of the lecture notes of two seminar series given during the academic year 1976/77 at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Calgary, and in the summer of 1978 at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Technical University Clausthal. The aim of the seminars was to present geometric quantization from the point of view· of its applica­ tions to quantum mechanics, and to introduce the quantum dynamics of various physical systems as the result of the geometric quantization of the classical dynamics of these systems. The group representation aspects of geometric quantiza­ tion as well as proofs of the existence and the uniqueness of the introduced structures can be found in the expository papers of Blattner, Kostant, Sternberg and Wolf, and also in the references quoted in these papers. The books of Souriau (1970) and Simms and Woodhouse (1976) present the theory of geometric quantization and its relationship to quantum mech­ anics. The purpose of the present book is to complement the preceding ones by including new developments of the theory and emphasizing the computations leading to results in quantum mechanics.

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