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Reparametrization Invariance of Path Integrals

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2 Condensed Matter

Abstract

We demonstrate the reparametrization invariance of perturbatively defined one-dimensional functional integrals up to the three-loop level for a path integral of a quantum-mechanical point particle in a box. We exhibit the origin of the failure of earlier authors to establish reparametrization invariance which led them to introduce, superfluously, a compensating potential depending on the connection of the coordinate system. We show that problems with invariance are absent by defining path integrals as the epsilon-> 0 -limit of 1+ epsilon -dimensional functional integrals.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9906156,
  title  = {Reparametrization Invariance of Path Integrals},
  author = {H. Kleinert and A. Chervyakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9906156},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Author Information under http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/institution.html . Latest update of paper also at http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/kleiner_re289/preprint.html

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