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A History of Feynman's Sum over Histories in Quantum Mechanics

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP History and Philosophy of Physics

Abstract

A history of Feynman's sum over histories is presented in brief. A focus is placed on the progress of path-integration techniques for exactly path-integrable problems in quantum mechanics.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9811023,
  title  = {A History of Feynman's Sum over Histories in Quantum Mechanics},
  author = {Akira Inomata and Georg Junker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9811023},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

3 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on "Path-Integrals from peV to TeV", Florence, Italy, 1998