Quantum Mechanics on Lie Groups: I. Noncommutative Fourier Transforms

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19840v1
• Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:49:22 GMT
• Title: Quantum Mechanics on Lie Groups: I. Noncommutative Fourier Transforms
• Authors: Mathieu Beauvillain, Blagoje Oblak, Marios Petropoulos,
• Abstract summary: This is a group-theoretic version of the map from position space to momentum space, with generally noncommuting momenta owing to the group structure.<n>We show that our formalism provides an isometry of Hilbert spaces, and use it to derive a noncommutative Poisson formula for any compact Lie group.
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• Abstract: Starting from square-integrable wave functions on a Lie group, we build an invertible Fourier transform mapping them on wave functions on the dual of the Lie algebra. This is a group-theoretic version of the map from position space to momentum space, with generally noncommuting momenta owing to the group structure. As a result, the multiplication of momentum-dependent functions involves star products, which makes the construction of noncommutative Fourier series much more involved than that of their commutative cousin. We show that our formalism provides an isometry of Hilbert spaces, and use it to derive a noncommutative Poisson summation formula for any compact Lie group. This is a key preliminary for the computation of Wigner functions and path integrals for quantum systems on group manifolds.

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