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   • CommentTimeMar 1st 2012
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   Format: MarkdownItexfollowing what Zoran just did to _[[Heisenberg Lie algebra]]_, I have added to _[[Weyl algebra]]_ a note in its relation to the former.

   following what Zoran just did to Heisenberg Lie algebra, I have added to Weyl algebra a note in its relation to the former.

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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to: * [[Markus Pflaum]], *From Weyl quantization to modern algebraic index theory*, in *Groups and Analysis -- The Legacy of Hermann Weyl*, Cambridge University Press (2008) 84-99 &lbrack;[doi:10.1017/CBO9780511721410.005](https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511721410.005)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Weyl+algebra/9">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Weyl+algebra/9">v9</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Weyl+algebra">current</a>

   added pointer to:

   • Markus Pflaum, From Weyl quantization to modern algebraic index theory, in Groups and Analysis – The Legacy of Hermann Weyl, Cambridge University Press (2008) 84-99 [doi:10.1017/CBO9780511721410.005]

   diff, v9, current

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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to the original: * [[Hermann Weyl]], pp. 22 in: *Quantenmechanik und Gruppentheorie*, Zeitschrift für Physik **46** (1927) 1–46 &lbrack;[doi:10.1007/BF02055756](https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02055756)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Weyl+algebra/9">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Weyl+algebra/9">v9</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Weyl+algebra">current</a>

   added pointer to the original:

   • Hermann Weyl, pp. 22 in: Quantenmechanik und Gruppentheorie, Zeitschrift für Physik 46 (1927) 1–46 [doi:10.1007/BF02055756]

   diff, v9, current

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   • CommentTimeDec 2nd 2023
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded the previously missing cross-link with *[[Weyl relations]]* and added to the beginning ([here](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Weyl+algebra#Idea)) a couple of lines of brief diambiguation (this deserves to be expanded on much more, though) <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Weyl+algebra/10">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Weyl+algebra/10">v10</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Weyl+algebra">current</a>

   added the previously missing cross-link with Weyl relations and added to the beginning (here) a couple of lines of brief diambiguation (this deserves to be expanded on much more, though)

   diff, v10, current

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   • CommentTimeDec 7th 2023
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointers to: * [[Jacques Dixmier]], *Sur les algèbres de Weyl*, Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France, **96** (1968) 209-242 &lbrack;[numdam:BSMF_1968__96__209_0](http://www.numdam.org/item/?id=BSMF_1968__96__209_0)&rbrack; and * Jason Gaddis, *The Weyl algebra and its friends: a survey* &lbrack;[arXiv:2305.01609](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01609)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Weyl+algebra/13">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Weyl+algebra/13">v13</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Weyl+algebra">current</a>

   added pointers to:

   • Jacques Dixmier, Sur les algèbres de Weyl, Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France, 96 (1968) 209-242 [numdam:BSMF_1968__96__209_0]

   and

   • Jason Gaddis, The Weyl algebra and its friends: a survey [arXiv:2305.01609]

   diff, v13, current

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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexand this historical account: * [[S. C. Coutinho]], *The Many Avatars of a Simple Algebra*, The American Mathematical Monthly **104** 7 (1997) 593-604 &lbrack;[doi:10.2307/2975052](https://doi.org/10.2307/2975052), [jstor:2975052](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2975052)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Weyl+algebra/13">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Weyl+algebra/13">v13</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Weyl+algebra">current</a>

   and this historical account:

   • S. C. Coutinho, The Many Avatars of a Simple Algebra, The American Mathematical Monthly 104 7 (1997) 593-604 [doi:10.2307/2975052, jstor:2975052]

   diff, v13, current