Feynman-Kac path integral expansion around the upside-down oscillator
High Energy Physics - Theory
2023-05-23 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We discuss path integrals for quantum mechanics with a potential which is a perturbation of the upside-down oscillator. We express the path integral (in the real time) by the Wiener measure. We obtain the Feynman integral for perturbations which are the Fourier-Laplace transforms of a complex measure and for polynomials of the fotm and (where is a natural number). We extend the method to quantum field theory (QFT) with complex scaled spatial coordinates . We show that such a complex extension of the path integral (in the real time) allows a rigorous path integral treatment of a large class of potentials including the ones unbounded from below.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2305.11989,
title = {Feynman-Kac path integral expansion around the upside-down oscillator},
author = {Z. Haba},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11989},
year = {2023}
}
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32 pages