By Sergio A. Albeverio, Raphael J. Høegh-Krohn, Sonia Mazzucchi (auth.)
Feynman course integrals, recommended heuristically by way of Feynman within the 40s, became the foundation of a lot of latest physics, from non-relativistic quantum mechanics to quantum fields, together with gauge fields, gravitation, cosmology. lately rules in line with Feynman direction integrals have additionally performed a big position in components of arithmetic like low-dimensional topology and differential geometry, algebraic geometry, infinite-dimensional research and geometry, and quantity thought.
The 2d version of LNM 523 is predicated at the first authors' mathematical technique of this idea provided in its 1st version in 1976. to keep up the numerous advancements because then, a whole new bankruptcy at the present vanguard of analysis has been extra. with the exception of this new bankruptcy and the correction of some misprints, the elemental fabric and presentation of the 1st version has been maintained. on the finish of every bankruptcy the reader also will locate notes with extra bibliographical information.
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This then completes the proof of this proposition. The case where B is a bounded symmetric operator with D(B) = R(B) = H, such that B −1 is bounded, deserves special attention. We have seen that in this case the space D must be equal to H and the form (x, y) is unique is unique we may drop it in the notation of and equal to (x, B −1 y). 33) H where x, y = (x, By) and (x, y) = (x, B −1 y), in the case B and B −1 are both bounded with domains equal to H. 35) H the representation f (x) = x,α dν(α) , H if we take ν to be the measure defined by h(B −1 α)dµ(α) .
For 0 ≤ t1 ≤ . . ≤ tn ≤ t we shall now compute the Feynman path integral 5 Feynman Path Integrals for the Anharmonic Oscillator ∼ I(x) = e γ(t)=x ∼ Def = e t i 2 0 t i 2 n t γ˙ 2 (τ )dτ − γA2 γdτ 0 i e 0 t ˙ 2 dτ − i (γ+ ˙ β) 2 55 αj γ(tj ) j=1 n (γ+β)A2 (γ+β)dτ i e 0 Ω0 (γ(0))dγ αj (γ(tj )+β(tj )) j=1 H0 Ω0 (γ(0) + β(0)) dγ . 26) Rn from which we get dν0 (α0 ) = |4π 3 A|−1/4 e− 2 α0 A 1 −1 α0 dα0 . 25) we obtain n − 2i xA tg tAx I(x) = e i e −1/4 |4π A| 3 αj j=1 e cos A tj cos A t iα0 cos1A t x e x − 2i e −iα0 n jk=1 αj γtj ,γtk αk n g0 (0,tj )αj j=1 e− 2 α0 g0 (0,0)α0 i Rn · e − 12 α0 A−1 α0 dα0 .
2i n αj j=1 dµ(αj )dtj . 51) j=1 We introduce now the real separable Hilbert space H+ of continuous functions n γ from [0, ∞] to Rn such that γ(0) = 0 and dγ dτ is in L2 ([0, ∞], R ) with norm given by ∞ |γ| = 2 dγ dτ 2 dτ . 52) 32 If m or 3 The Feynman Path Integral in Potential Scattering are different from 1 we shall define the norm in H+ by m |γ|2 = 2 dγ dτ dτ and we get the corresponding formula ∼ Ws∗ (mv, x) = e ∞ im 2 0 | dγ dτ | 2 dτ ·e − i −s V (γ(τ )+vτ +x)dτ 0 dγ . 54) as s → −∞ exists in the strong L2 -sense and defines W−∗ (δ, x) by W−∗ (δ, x)e−i δ x ˆ ψ(δ)dδ = (W− ψ)(x) .
