The formulation of Geometric Quantization contains several axioms and assumptions. We show that for real polarizations we can generalize the standard geometric quantization procedure by introducing an arbitrary connection on the polarization bundle. The existence of reducible quantum structures leads to considering the class of Liouville symplectic manifolds. Our main application of this modified geometric quantization scheme is to Quantum Mechanics on Riemannian manifolds. With this method we obtain an energy operator without the scalar curvature term that appears in the standard formulation, thus agreeing with the usual expression found in the Physics literature.
We revisit the computation of the phase of the Dirac fermion scattering operator in external gauge fields. The computation is through a parallel transport along the path of time evolution operators. The novelty of the present paper compared with the earlier geometric approach by Langmann and Mickelsson, [LM], is that we can avoid the somewhat arbitrary choice in the regularization of the time evolution for intermediate times using a natural choice of the connection form on the space of appropriate unitary operators.
In this paper we study the convex cone of not necessarily smooth measures satisfying the classical KMS condition within the context of Poisson geometry. We discuss the general properties of KMS measures and its relation with the underlying Poisson geometry in analogy to Weinsteins seminal work in the smooth case. Moreover, by generalizing results from the symplectic case, we focus on the case of $b$-Poisson manifolds, where we provide a complete characterization of the convex cone of KMS measures.
Polymer Quantum Mechanics is based on some of the techniques used in the loop quantization of gravity that are adapted to describe systems possessing a finite number of degrees of freedom. It has been used in two ways: on one hand it has been used to represent some aspects of the loop quantization in a simpler context, and, on the other, it has been applied to each of the infinite mechanical modes of other systems. Indeed, this polymer approach was recently implemented for the free scalar field propagator. In this work we compute the polymer propagators of the free particle and a particle in a box; amusingly, just as in the non polymeric case, the one of the particle in a box may be computed also from that of the free particle using the method of images. We verify the propagators hereby obtained satisfy standard properties such as: consistency with initial conditions, composition and Greens function character. Furthermore they are also shown to reduce to the usual Schrodinger propagators in the limit of small parameter $mu_0$, the length scale introduced in the polymer dynamics and which plays a role analog of that of Planck length in Quantum Gravity.
We characterize point transformations in quantum mechanics from the mathematical viewpoint. To conclude that the canonical variables given by each point transformation in quantum mechanics correctly describe the extended point transformation, we show that they are all selfadjoint operators in $L^2(mathbb{R}^n)$ and that the continuous spectrum of each coincides with $mathbb{R}$. They are also shown to satisfy the canonical commutation relations.
We give a mathematically rigorous derivation of Ehrenfests equations for the evolution of position and momentum expectation values, under general and natural assumptions which include atomic and molecular Hamiltonians with Coulomb interactions.