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A quaternion based star product for a particle in the presence of a monopole

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Speaker: 
Fedele Lizzi
Date: 
Tue, 2010-01-19 14:00 - 15:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

We present a deformed star product for a particle in the presence of magnetic monopole. The product is obtained within a Weyl quantization-dequantization scheme, with a correspondence between classical observables and operators on a quaternionic Hilbert space following work of Emch and Jadczyk. The resulting product among complex valued functions is well defined for a large class of functions and reproduces (at first order in h bar) the Poisson structure of the particle in the monopole field. The product is associative only for quantized monopole charge, thus reproducing Dirac's quantization requirement.

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