Symplectic Group Sp(K)

Bounded invertible real-linear maps preserving the symplectic form B
Symplectic Group Sp(K)

For a (K,B)(K,B), the symplectic group is

Sp(K)={TGL(K):B(Tx,Ty)=B(x,y) x,yK}. Sp(K)=\{T\in GL(K): B(Tx,Ty)=B(x,y)\ \forall x,y\in K\}.

Key properties (paper use):

  • Acts by *-automorphisms on Weyl operators: V(z)V(Tz)V(z)\mapsto V(Tz).
  • Only a subgroup is unitarily implementable in Fock space ( ).

Example: Sp(R2n)Sp(\mathbb R^{2n}) is the classical real symplectic group.