A Top-Down Account of Linear Canonical Transforms

• Published in: Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
• Date: 2012
• Main Author: Wolf, K.B.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Інститут математики НАН України 2012
• Online Access: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/148472
• Journal Title: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cite this: A Top-Down Account of Linear Canonical Transforms / K.B. Wolf // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2012. — Т. 8. — Бібліогр.: 31 назв. — англ.

We contend that what are called Linear Canonical Transforms (LCTs) should be seen as a part of the theory of unitary irreducible representations of the '2+1' Lorentz group. The integral kernel representation found by Collins, Moshinsky and Quesne, and the radial and hyperbolic LCTs introdu...