Meanings
nounprequantization (plural prequantizations)
plural prequantizations
- mathematicsThe process of finding a quantum analog of a classical system by introducing a quantization condition.
Using the theory of Spin#123;c#125; Dirac quantization, we set up natural K-theory invariants of structure group Cont#95;#123;0#125;(P,#92;alpha) fibrations of prequantization spaces.
2015, Yasha Savelyev, Egor Shelukhin, “Twisted and untwisted K-theory quantization, and symplectic topology”, in arXiv
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