Universality of the Weyl–Heisenberg symmetry and its covariant quantizations
Jean‐Pierre Gazeau, Célestin Habonimana, Romain Murenzi +1 more
The Weyl–Heisenberg symmetries originate from translation invariances of various manifolds viewed as phase spaces, e.g. Euclidean plane, semi-discrete cylinder, torus, in the two-dimensional case, and higher-dimensional generalizations. In this paper, we describe, on an elementary level, how this symmetry emerges through displacement operators and standard Fourier analysis, and how their unitary representations are used both in Signal Analysis (time–frequency techniques, Gabor transform) and in quantum formalism (covariant integral quantizations and semi-classical portraits). An example of application of the formalism to the Majorana stellar constellation in the plane is presented.
International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics•Feb 11, 2025•0 citations