Abstract: | After a short review of the existing methods for quantization of curved manifolds, the free particle motions or the so‐called geodesic flows on axisymmetrical prolate and oblate ellipsoids are quantized using the isomorphism established by Neumann of these systems and the harmonic oscillator restricted to the unit sphere. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2002 |