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The metaplectic group is a unitary representation of the double cover of the symplectic group; it is thus characterized by the exactness of the sequence.
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de Gosson, M.A. (2016). Metaplectic Operators. In: Born-Jordan Quantization. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 182. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27902-2_12
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