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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 x4nx^{4n} and x4n+2x^{4n+2} (where nn is a natural number). We extend the method to quantum field theory (QFT) with complex scaled spatial coordinates xix{\bf x}\rightarrow i{\bf x}. 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.

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@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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