Hawkins, Eli orcid.org/0000-0003-2054-3152 (2016) Quantization of Planck's Constant. J. Symplectic Geom.. 587 – 655. ISSN: 1527-5256
Abstract
This paper is about the role of Planck's constant, $\hbar$, in the geometric quantization of Poisson manifolds using symplectic groupoids. In order to construct a strict deformation quantization of a given Poisson manifold, one can use all possible rescalings of the Poisson structure, which can be combined into a single ``Heisenberg-Poisson'' manifold. The new coordinate on this manifold is identified with $\hbar$. I present an explicit construction for a symplectic groupoid integrating a Heisenberg-Poisson manifold and discuss its geometric quantization. I show that in cases where $\hbar$ cannot take arbitrary values, this is enforced by Bohr-Sommerfeld conditions in geometric quantization. A Heisenberg-Poisson manifold is defined by linearly rescaling the Poisson structure, so I also discuss nonlinear variations and give an example of quantization of a nonintegrable Poisson manifold using a presymplectic groupoid. In appendices, I construct symplectic groupoids integrating a more general class of Heisenberg-Poisson manifolds constructed from Jacobi manifolds and discuss the parabolic tangent groupoid.
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| Institution: | The University of York |
| Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Mathematics (York) |
| Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2016 10:23 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Sep 2025 23:37 |
| Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.4310/JSG.2016.v14.n2.a6 |
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Identification Number: | 10.4310/JSG.2016.v14.n2.a6 |
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| Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:106868 |

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