Resolution-of-unity conjecture for coherent states on Lie groups

Let GG be a Lie group, let g\mathfrak g be its Lie algebra, let Φ(g,X)\Phi(g,X) denote the phase-space label associated with (g,X)G×g(g,X)\in G\times\mathfrak g, and let ΨΦ(g,X)t\Psi^t_{\Phi(g,X)} be the corresponding coherent state. For sufficiently small t>0t>0, there should exist a constant CtC_t such that

\mathds1=CtGgΨΦ(g,X)tΨΦ(g,X)t(ΨΦ(g,X)tΨΦ(g,X)t)1dgdX,\mathds{1}=C_t\int_G\int_{\mathfrak g}|\Psi^t_{\Phi(g,X)}\rangle\langle\Psi^t_{\Phi(g,X)}|\,\bigl(\langle\Psi^t_{\Phi(g,X)}|\Psi^t_{\Phi(g,X)}\rangle\bigr)^{-1}\,dg\,dX,

with

Ct1=vol(G)g(ΨΦ(g,X)tΨΦ(g,X)t)1dXtn.C_t^{-1}=\operatorname{vol}(G)\int_{\mathfrak g}\bigl(\langle\Psi^t_{\Phi(g,X)}|\Psi^t_{\Phi(g,X)}\rangle\bigr)^{-1}\,dX\propto t^{-n}.

Resolution-of-unity conjecture. For sufficiently small t>0t>0, the displayed resolution of unity and the stated asymptotic scaling of CtC_t hold for an arbitrary Lie group GG. If GG is commutative or G=SU(2)G=SU(2), they hold for every t>0t>0. The claim proposes a normalized coherent-state resolution using the inverse coherent-state norm rather than the heat-kernel measure. The paper identifies the commutative case and SU(2)SU(2) as cases where the assertion is expected to hold for all positive tt, while the general small-tt assertion remains unproved in the supplied text.

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Alexander Stottmeister and Thomas Thiemann, “Coherent states, quantum gravity and the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, II: Compact Lie Groups”, arXiv:1504.02170 (2015).

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