Maximal Covariance Group of Wigner Transforms and Pseudo-Differential Operators

Abstract

We show that the linear symplectic and anti-symplectic transformations form the maximal covariance group for both the Wigner transform and Weyl operators. The proof is based on a new result from symplectic geometry which characterizes symplectic and anti-symplectic matrices, and which allows us, in addition, to refine a classical result on the preservation of symplectic capacities of ellipsoids.

10 pages, accepted for publication in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc