This book presents a comprehensive mathematical study of the operators behind the Born-Jordan quantization scheme. The Schrödinger and Heisenberg pictures of quantum mechanics are equivalent only if the Born-Jordan scheme is used. Thus, Born-Jordan quantization provides the only physically consistent quantization scheme, as opposed to the Weyl quantization commonly used by physicists. In this book we develop Born-Jordan quantization from an operator-theoretical point of view, and analyze in depth the conceptual differences between the two schemes. We discuss various physically motivated approaches, in particular the Feynman-integral point of view. One important and intriguing feature of Born-Jordan quantization is that it is not one-to-one: there are infinitely many classical observables whose quantization is zero.

Autorentext
Maurice de Gosson is a research professor at the Univer-sity of Vienna. He has held various visiting positions at prestigious Universities(Yale, Boulder, Tel Aviv).

Inhalt

Born-Jordan Quantization: Physical Motivation: On the Quantization Problem.- Quantization of Monomials.- Basic Hamiltonian Mechanics.- Wave Mechanics and the Schrödinger Equation.- Mathematical Aspects of Born-Jordan Quantization: The Weyl Correspondence.- The Cohen Class.- Born-Jordan Quantization.- Shubin's Pseudo-Differential Calculus.- Born-Jordan Pseudo-Differential Operators.- Weak Values and the Reconstruction Problem.- Some Advanced Topics: Metaplectic Operators.- Symplectic Covariance Properties.- Symbol Classes and Function Spaces.