Analytic representations in quantum mechanics

Abstract

Various Euclidean, hyperbolic and elliptic analytic representations are introduced and relations among them are discussed. The Bargmann analytic representation in the complex plane is considered and its relation to other phase-space methods for the harmonic oscillator is reviewed. The general theory that relates the growth of analytic functions with the density of their zeros is applied to Bargmann functions and it leads to theorems on the completeness of sequences of Glauber coherent states. Two hyperbolic analytic representations in the unit disc, based on SU(1, 1) coherent states and also on phase states are introduced. A third analytic representation in the complex plane based on Barut–Girardello states is also considered and transformations which relate it to the other ones are studied. In the case of systems with finite-dimensional Hilbert space, an elliptic analytic representation in the extended complex plane and also another analytic representation based on theta functions are introduced. The Berezin formalism in the Euclidean, hyperbolic and elliptic cases is discussed. Contour analytic representations in these three cases are also presented.