%0 Journal Article %T Quantization of symplectic vector spaces over finite fields %A Shamgar Gurevich %A Ronny Hadani %J Mathematics %D 2007 %I arXiv %X In this paper, we construct a quantization functor, associating a complex vector space H(V) to a finite dimensional symplectic vector space V over a finite field of odd characteristic. As a result, we obtain a canonical model for the Weil representation of the symplectic group Sp(V). The main new technical result is a proof of a stronger form of the Stone-von Neumann property for the Heisenberg group. Our result answers, for the case of the Heisenberg group, a question of Kazhdan about the possible existence of a canonical vector space attached to a coadjoint orbit of a general unipotent group over finite field. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4556v4