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Bohr-Sommerfeld orbits and quantizable symplectic manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. J. Simms
Affiliation:
Trinity College, Dublin

Extract

The phase space of a finite dimensional classical Hamiltonian system is a C differentiable manifold M which carries a C differential 2-form ω which is closed, dω = 0, and non-singular in the sense that there is a bijective map α→ Xα from covariant vector fields to contravariant vector fields satisfying the identity

Such a pair (M, μ) is called a symplectic manifold.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1973

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