TITLE:
Valid Quantization: The Next Step
AUTHORS:
John R. Klauder
KEYWORDS:
Half-Harmonic Oscillator, Affine Quantization, Particle in a Box
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology,
Vol.8 No.3,
July
18,
2022
ABSTRACT: Canonical quantization is a wonderful procedure for selected problems, but there are many problems for which it fails. Affine quantization is a different procedure that has shown that it can solve many problems that canonical quantization cannot. Here, words like succeed and fail to refer to whether the quantization results are correct or incorrect. This paper offers two simple examples that serve to introduce affine quantization, and compare studies of two different quantization procedures. Brief comments about field theory and gravity problems undergoing quantization by affine procedures complete the paper.