COHERENT STATES AND COORDINATE-FREE QUANTIZATION

The usual quantization procedures interpret canonical transformations in an active way linking them with unitary transformations, while the quantization procedure offered by coherent states completely separates classical canonical transformations and unitary operator transformati ons. By exploiting this property, along with a physically motivated sh adow metric, it is seen how to realize the quantization process in as coordinate-free a form as holds in classical mechanics.