Round 11: Tossup 13

Certain deformations of this construct cannot fit through a hole by Gromov’s non-squeezing theorem, which is named in reference to a Biblical camel. This construct names a formulation that replaces eigenstates with “star-genstates” defined by the Moyal product. This construct is a cotangent (10[1])bundle with a canonical symplectic form. Hilbrand Groenewold introduced quasiprobability distributions that map onto operators in Hilbert space via the Wigner–Weyl transformation (10[1])in a formulation of quantum mechanics named for this construct. This construct’s distribution function is constant along trajectories (10[1])according to Liouville’s theorem. (10[2])This construct, (-5[1])which is the product (10[1]-5[1])of (10[1])direct and (10[1])reciprocal space, is described by canonical coordinates of position and momentum. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1]-5[1])name this representation (10[1]-5[1])of all physical states (10[2])of a (-5[1])system. (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[9])

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