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

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(--Itô) formulas, but in real-time (not imaginary-time) path integral form. Olshanski semigroups play the leading role in the proof of it.

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