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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480259503321

Titolo

Perspectives on quantization : proceedings of the 1996 AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference, July 7-11, 1996, Mt. Holyoke College / / Lewis A. Coburn, Marc A. Rieffel, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1998]

©1998

ISBN

0-8218-7806-9

0-8218-5550-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 214

Disciplina

530.12/01/51

Soggetti

Quantum theory - Mathematics

Quantum field theory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""List of participants""; ""Preface""; ""Discrete series representations and integration over boundary orbits of symmetric domains""; ""Microlocal techniques for semiclassical problems in geometric quantization""; ""A non-Gaussian fixed point for the renormalization group""; ""Quantum mechanics in phase space""; ""1. History and background""; ""2. The holomorphic function representation""; ""3. The complex group as phase space""; ""4. An inversion formula""; ""5 . An uncertainty principle""; ""6. Toeplitz operators""; ""7. Comparison with geometric quantization""

""Nonstandard quantum groups associated to certain Belavin-Drinfeld triples""""Ergodic theorems for quantum Kronecker flows""; ""Quantum maps""; ""The relationship between classical mechanics and quantum mechanics""; ""Deformation quantization and K -theory""; ""A q-analogue of the first homology group of a 3-manifold""; ""Constructive non-linear quantum field theory in four space-time dimensions""; ""Groupoids and quantization""; ""Quantization, symmetries, and relativity""; ""Quantizing Poisson manifolds""