Antinormally-Ordered Quantizations, phase space path integrals and the Olshanski semigroup of a symplectic group

TL;DR

This paper explores deep connections between the metaplectic representation, antinormally-ordered quantizations, and phase space path integrals within the framework of the Olshanski semigroup for symplectic groups, providing a real-time path integral expression.

Contribution

It establishes a novel relation expressing the metaplectic representation via real-time path integrals using Olshanski semigroups, linking quantization methods and group representations.

Findings

Metaplectic representation expressed through generalized Feynman–Kac formulas

Connection established between antinormally-ordered quantizations and path integrals

Olshanski semigroup plays a key role in the proof

Abstract

The main aim of this article is to show some intimate relations among the following three notions: (1) the metaplectic representation of $Sp(2n,\mathbb{R})$ and its extension to some semigroups, called the Olshanski semigroup for $Sp(2n,\mathbb{R})$ or Howe's oscillator semigroup, (2) antinormally-ordered quantizations on the phase space $\mathbb{R}^{2m}\cong\mathbb{C}^{m}$, (3) path integral quantizations where the paths are on the phase space $\mathbb{R}^{2m}\cong\mathbb{C}^{m}$. In the Main Theorem, the metaplectic representation $\rho(e^{X})$ ($X\in\mathfrak{sp}(2n,\mathbb{R})$) is expressed in terms of generalized Feynman--Kac(--It\^{o}) formulas, but in real-time (not imaginary-time) path integral form. Olshanski semigroups play the leading role in the proof of it.