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The Classical Limit of Dynamics for Spaces Quantized by an Action of ℝd

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Marc A. Rieffel*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 94720-3840 e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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We have previously shown how to construct a deformation quantization of any locally compact space on which a vector group acts. Within this framework we show here that, for a natural class of Hamiltonians, the quantum evolutions will have the classical evolution as their classical limit.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1997

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