Berezin quantization and unitary representations of Lie groups

Abstract

In 1974, Berezin proposed a quantum theory for dynamical systems having a Kähler manifold as their phase space. The system states were represented by holomorphic functions on the manifold. For any homogeneous Kähler manifold, the Lie algebra of its group of motions may be represented either by holomorphic differential operators (``quantum theory"), or by functions on the manifold with Poisson brackets, generated by the Kähler structure (``classical theory"). The Kähler potentials and the corresponding Lie algebras are constructed now explicitly for all unitary representations of any compact simple Lie group. The quantum dynamics can be represented in terms of a phase-space path integral, and the action principle appears in the semi-classical approximation.