Pseudodifferential Weyl calculus on vector bundles

TL;DR

This paper develops a geometric Weyl quantization framework on curved manifolds with vector bundles, extending flat space results to curved geometries, and computes associated star products and symbols for key physical operators.

Contribution

It introduces a geometric approach to Weyl quantization on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with vector bundles, including star product construction and symbol-operator correspondence.

Findings

Constructed the star product and its semiclassical expansion up to third order.

Established a one-to-one correspondence between self-adjoint symbols and operators.

Computed Weyl symbols for Dirac, Maxwell, Yang-Mills, and Einstein operators.

Abstract

We develop a geometric framework for Weyl quantization on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, in which pseudodifferential operators act on sections of vector bundles equipped with arbitrary connections. We construct the associated star product and compute its semiclassical expansion up to third order in the expansion parameter. A central feature of our approach is a one-to-one correspondence between formally self-adjoint symbols and formally self-adjoint operators, extending known results from flat space to curved geometries. In addition, we analyze the Moyal equation satisfied by the Wigner function in this setting and provide explicit computations of Weyl symbols for several physically significant operators, including the Dirac, Maxwell, linearized Yang-Mills, and linearized Einstein operators. Our results lay the foundation for future developments in quantum field theory on curved spacetimes, semiclassical analysis, and chiral kinetic theory.