Metaplectic operators for finite abelian groups and ℝd✩

The Segal-Shale-Weil representation associates to a symplectic transformation of the Heisenberg group an intertwining operator, called metaplectic operator. We develop an explicit construction of metaplectic operators for the Heisenberg group H(G) of a finite abelian group G, an important setting in finite time-frequency analysis. Our approach also yields a simple construction for the multivariate Euclidean case G = ℝd.