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prequantum circle n-bundle = extended Lagrangian
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Given a symplectic vector space , then a function regarded as a Hamiltonian is called quadratic if in terms of linear coordinates it is a degree-2 polynomial. If it is in fact a quadratic form then it is called a homogeneous quadratic Hamiltonian.
Quadratic Hamiltonians enjoy particularly nice properties under quantization. In particular Weyl quantization restricts on them to a homomorphism of Lie algebras from the Poisson bracket to the commutator (e.g. Robbin-Salamon 93).
The quantomorphisms of the symplectic manifold which come from paths of quadratic Hamiltonians form the extended affine symplectic group . The further subgroup of those coming from homogeneous quadratic Hamiltonians form the metaplectic group (Robbin-Salamon 93)
D. G. Currie, E. J. Saletan, Canonical transformations and quadratic hamiltonians, II Nuovo Cimento B Series 11 , Volume 9, Issue 1, pp 143-153, 1972
Jean Leray, section 1.1 of Lagrangian analysis and quantum mechanics, MIT press 1981 pdf
Joel Robbin, Dietmar Salamon, Feynman path integrals on phase space and the metaplectic representation Math. Z. 221 (1996), no. 2, 307–335, (MR98f:58051, doi, pdf), also in Dietmar Salamon (ed.), Symplectic Geometry, LMS Lecture Note series 192 (1993)
Monique Combescure, Didier Robert, Quadratic Quantum Hamiltonians revisited (arXiv:math-ph/0509027)
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