Quantization of superintegrable systems with Nambu-Poisson brackets

Yavuz Nutku (nutku@gursey.gov.tr)
Feza Gursey Institute
P.O.Box 6 Cengelkoy
Istanbul 81220 Turkey

Abstracts

We point out that Nambu's construction of alternative brackets for super-integrable systems can be thought of as Poisson brackets with Casimirs in their kernel. By introducing privileged coordinates in phase space the Nambu-Poisson brackets are brought to the form of Heisenberg's equations. We propose a definition for constructing quantum operators for classical functions which enables us to turn the Nambu-Poisson commutators into a set of eigenvalue problems. The requirement of the single valuedness of the eigenfunction leads to quantization. The example of the harmonic oscillator is used to illustrate this general procedure for quantizing a class of super-integrable systems.