Glauber-Sudarshan-type quantizations and their path integral representations for compact Lie groups

Abstract

In this paper, we consider an arbitrary irreducible unitary representation $({\pi }_{\lambda },V_{\lambda })$ of a compact connected, simply connected semisimple Lie group $G$ with highest weight $\lambda$, and apply the idea of Daubechies--Klauder (1985) and Yamashita (2011) on rigorous coherent-state path integrals to this representation, where the orbit of the highest weight vector is interpreted as the manifold of coherent states. Our main theorem is two-fold: the first main theorem is in terms of Brownian motions and stochastic integrals, and proven using the Feynman--Kac--Itô formula on a vector bundle of a Riemannian manifold, due to Güneysu (2010). In the second main theorem, we consider a sequence $({\mu }_n)$ of finite measures on the space of smooth paths, and a `path integral' is defined to be a limit of the integrals with respect to $({\mu }_n)$. The formulation and the proof of the second main theorem employ \emph{rough path theory} originated by Lyons (1998).

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