Abstract
We prove that the Wigner–Stratonovich–Agarwal operator that defines the quasi-probability distribution on the sphere [for the SU(2) dynamical group] can be written as an integral of the SU(2) (irreducible unitary) representation element with respect to a single variable that labels the orbits in the coadjoint representation. This allows us to consider contractions of the SU(2) quasi-probability distribution to the cases of the Heisenberg–Weyl group and the two-dimensional Euclidean group.
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