The n-dimensionalmetaplectic groupSp(n,R) is the twofoldcoverof the sympl- n n tic group Sp(n,R), which is the group of linear transformations ofX = R xR that preserve the bilinear (alternate) form x y [( ), ( )] =? x, ? + y, ? . (0. 1) ? ? 2 n There is a unitary representation of Sp(n,R)intheHilbertspace L (R ), called the metaplectic representation,the image of which is the groupof transformations generated by the following ones: the linear changes of variables, the operators of multiplication by exponentials with pure imaginary quadratic forms in the ex- nent, and the Fourier transformation; some normalization factor enters the de?- tion of the operators of the ?rst and third species. The metaplectic representation was introduced in a great generality in [28] - special cases had been considered before, mostly in papers of mathematical physics - and it is of such fundamental importancethat the two concepts (the groupand the representation)havebecome virtually indistinguishable. This is not going to be our point of view: indeed, the main point of this work is to show that a certain ?nite covering of the symplectic group (generally of degree n) has another interesting representation, which enjoys analogues of most of the nicer properties of the metaplectic representation. We shall call it the anaplectic representation - other coinages that may come to your mind sound too medical - and shall consider ?rst the one-dimensional case, the main features of which can be described in quite elementary terms.
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Birkhauser Verlag Ag
ISBN-13
9783764375447
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94426864
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Author
ANDRÉ Unterberger
Publication Name
The Fourfold Way in Real Analysis: an Alternative to the Metaplectic Representation
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Mathematics
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
222 Pages
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235mm
Item Width
155mm
Volume
250
Item Weight
1120g
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Title_Author
ANDRÉ Unterberger
Series Title
Progress in Mathematics
Country/Region of Manufacture
Switzerland
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