Generalized Bergman kernels and geometric quantization

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In geometric quantization it is well known that, if f is an observable and F a polarization on a symplectic manifold (M,ω), then the condition ‘‘Xf leaves F invariant’’ (where Xf denotes the Hamiltonian vector field associated to f ) is sufficient to guarantee that one does not have to compute the BKS kernel explicitly in order to know the corresponding quantum operator. It is shown in this paper that this condition on f can be weakened to ‘‘Xf leaves F+F° invariant’’and the corresponding quantum operator is then given implicitly by formula (4.8); in particular when F is a (positive) Kähler polarization, all observables can be quantized ‘‘directly’’ and moreover, an ‘‘explicit’’ formula for the corresponding quantum operator is derived (Theorem 5.8). Applying this to the phase space R2n one obtains a quantization prescription which ressembles the normal ordering of operators in quantum field theory. When we translate this prescription to the usual position representation of quantum mechanics, the result is (a.o) that the operator associated to a classical potential is multiplication by a function which is essentially the convolution of the potential function with a Gaussian function of width ℏ, instead of multiplication by the potential itself.

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