Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 8 (2012), 033, 13 pages      arXiv:1206.1123      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2012.033
Contribution to the Special Issue “Superintegrability, Exact Solvability, and Special Functions”

A Top-Down Account of Linear Canonical Transforms

Kurt Bernardo Wolf
Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad s/n, Cuernavaca, Mor. 62210, México

Received April 24, 2012, in final form June 01, 2012; Published online June 06, 2012

Abstract
We contend that what are called Linear Canonical Transforms (LCTs) should be seen as a part of the theory of unitary irreducible representations of the '2+1' Lorentz group. The integral kernel representation found by Collins, Moshinsky and Quesne, and the radial and hyperbolic LCTs introduced thereafter, belong to the discrete and continuous representation series of the Lorentz group in its parabolic subgroup reduction. The reduction by the elliptic and hyperbolic subgroups can also be considered to yield LCTs that act on functions, discrete or continuous in other Hilbert spaces. We gather the summation and integration kernels reported by Basu and Wolf when studiying all discrete, continuous, and mixed representations of the linear group of 2×2 real matrices. We add some comments on why all should be considered canonical.

Key words: linear transforms; canonical transforms; Lie group Sp(2,R).

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