Restricted Symplectic Group rSp(K)
The implementable symplectic transformations in Shale's Fock representation
The restricted symplectic group is
where is the restricted general linear group.
In Shale's Theorem 4.1 (Fock–Cook quantization), is unitarily implementable iff , equivalently is Hilbert–Schmidt.
Remarks
Key properties:
- Closed under polar decomposition.
- Carries a continuous projective unitary representation .
Examples
- Finite-dimensional case: .