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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Direct Evaluation of Path Integrals

Walter DittrichMartin Reuter

subject

CombinatoricsPath (topology)PhysicsFree particlePhase factorsymbols.namesakePath integral formulationTrajectorysymbolsHarmonic oscillatorAction (physics)Schrödinger equation

description

Every time τ n is assigned a point y n . We now connect the individual points with a classical path y(τ). y(τ) is not necessarily the (on-shell trajectory) extremum of the classical action. It can be any path between τ n and τn−1 specified by the classical Lagrangian \(L(y,\dot{y},t).\)

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56430-7_20