Blattner-Kostant-Sternberg pairing
ID: blattner-kostant-sternberg-pairing
The pairing compares state spaces belonging to two polarizations using their prequantum sections and half-forms. When it defines a suitable identification or projection, a classical Hamiltonian flow can transport a state to its transported polarization and the pairing can return it to the original state space. Differentiating this construction supplies operators for some observables that do not directly preserve the original polarization. Existence, domains and unitarity require additional hypotheses; it is not a universal canonical equivalence of all polarizations.
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