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Quantization is studied from a viewpoint of field extension. If the dynamical fields and their action have a periodicity, the space of wave functions should be algebraically extended `a la Galois, so that it may be consistent with the periodicity. This was pointed out by Y. Nambu three decades ago. Having chosen quantum mechanics (one dimensional field theory), this paper shows that a different Galois extension gives a different quantization scheme. A new scheme of quantization appears when the invariance under Galois group is imposed as a physical state condition. Then, the normalization condition appears as a sum over the product of more than three wave functions, each of which is given for a different root adjoined by the field extension.
Let $ksubseteq K$ be a finite Galois extension of fields with Galois group $G$. Let $mathscr{G}$ be the automorphism $k$-group scheme of $K$. We construct a canonical $k$-subgroup scheme $underline{G}subsetmathscr{G}$ with the property that $Spec_k(K)$ is a $k$-torsor for $underline{G}$. $underline{G}$ is a constant $k$-group if and only if $G$ is abelian, in which case $G=underline{G}$.
Fedosovs simple geometrical construction for deformation quantization of symplectic manifolds is generalized in three ways without introducing new variables: (1) The base manifold is allowed to be a supermanifold. (2) The star product does not have to be of Weyl/symmetric or Wick/normal type. (3) The initial geometric structures are allowed to depend on Plancks constant.
We show that the associative algebra structure can be incorporated in the BRST quantization formalism for gauge theories such that extension from the corresponding Lie algebra to the associative algebra is achieved using operator quantization of reducible gauge theories. The BRST differential that encodes the associativity of the algebra multiplication is constructed as a second-order quadratic differential operator on the bar resolution.
In this work various symbol spaces with values in a sequentially complete locally convex vector space are introduced and discussed. They are used to define vector-valued oscillatory integrals which allow to extend Rieffels strict deformation quantization to the framework of sequentially complete locally convex algebras and modules with separately continuous products and module structures, making use of polynomially bounded actions of $mathbb{R}^n$. Several well-known integral formulas for star products are shown to fit into this general setting, and a new class of examples involving compactly supported $mathbb{R}^n$-actions on $mathbb{R}^n$ is constructed.
It is shown that the heat operator in the Hall coherent state transform for a compact Lie group $K$ is related with a Hermitian connection associated to a natural one-parameter family of complex structures on $T^*K$. The unitary parallel transport of this connection establishes the equivalence of (geometric) quantizations of $T^*K$ for different choices of complex structures within the given family. In particular, these results establish a link between coherent state transforms for Lie groups and results of Hitchin and Axelrod, Della Pietra and Witten.