Unitary moment map of an isotropic oscillator

ID: unitary-moment-map-of-an-isotropic-oscillator

On the canonical cotangent bundle , and . The unitary group acts by , preserving both. For a Hermitian , the generator has Hamiltonian . The Poisson bracket satisfies , with no central term. The central generator has moment map ; imaginary antisymmetric matrices give ordinary angular momentum, while real symmetric matrices give quadratic observables mixing position and momentum.

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