Quantization of polysymplectic manifolds

Abstract

We adapt the framework of geometric quantization to the polysymplectic setting. Considering prequantization as the extension of symmetries from an underlying polysymplectic manifold to the space of sections of a Hermitian vector bundle, a natural definition of prequantum vector bundle is obtained which incorporates in an essential way the action of the space of coefficients. We define quantization with respect to a polarization and to a spinc structure. In the presence of a complex polarization, it is shown that the polysymplectic Guillemin–Sternberg conjecture is false. We conclude with potential extensions and applications.