Symplectic Geometry and Quantum Mechanics [electronic resource] /
de Gosson, Maurice A.author.
This book is devoted to a rather complete discussion of techniques and topics intervening in the mathematical treatment of quantum and semi-classical mechanics. It starts with a rigorous presentation of the basics of symplectic geometry and of its multiply-oriented extension. Further chapters concentrate on Lagrangian manifolds, Weyl operators and the Wigner-Moyal transform as well as on metaplectic groups and Maslov indices. Thus the keys for the mathematical description of quantum mechanics in phase space are discussed. They are followed by a rigorous geometrical treatment of the uncertainty principle. Then Hilbert-Schmidt and trace-class operators are exposed in order to treat density matrices. In the last chapter the Weyl pseudo-differential calculus is extended to phase space in order to derive a Schrödinger equation in phase space whose solutions are related to those of the usual Schrödinger equation by a wave-packet transform. The text is essentially self-contained and can be used as basis for graduate courses. Many topics are of genuine interest for pure mathematicians working in geometry and topology.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-363) and index.
Symplectic Geometry -- Symplectic Spaces and Lagrangian Planes -- The Symplectic Group -- Multi-Oriented Symplectic Geometry -- Intersection Indices in Lag(n) and Sp(n) -- Heisenberg Group, Weyl Calculus, and Metaplectic Representation -- Lagrangian Manifolds and Quantization -- Heisenberg Group and Weyl Operators -- The Metaplectic Group -- Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space -- The Uncertainty Principle -- The Density Operator -- A Phase Space Weyl Calculus.
This book is devoted to a rather complete discussion of techniques and topics intervening in the mathematical treatment of quantum and semi-classical mechanics. It starts with a rigorous presentation of the basics of symplectic geometry and of its multiply-oriented extension. Further chapters concentrate on Lagrangian manifolds, Weyl operators and the Wigner-Moyal transform as well as on metaplectic groups and Maslov indices. Thus the keys for the mathematical description of quantum mechanics in phase space are discussed. They are followed by a rigorous geometrical treatment of the uncertainty principle. Then Hilbert-Schmidt and trace-class operators are exposed in order to treat density matrices. In the last chapter the Weyl pseudo-differential calculus is extended to phase space in order to derive a Schrödinger equation in phase space whose solutions are related to those of the usual Schrödinger equation by a wave-packet transform. The text is essentially self-contained and can be used as basis for graduate courses. Many topics are of genuine interest for pure mathematicians working in geometry and topology.
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661
Topological groups.
Lie groups.
Physics.
Partial differential equations.
Integral transforms.
Operational calculus.
Operator theory.
Quantum physics.
Topological Groups, Lie Groups.
Mathematical Methods in Physics.
Partial Differential Equations.
Integral Transforms, Operational Calculus.
Operator Theory.
Quantum Physics.

Operator theory