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The Feynman path integral is defined over the space $\mathbb{R}^T$ of all possible paths; it has been a powerful tool to develop Quantum Mechanics. The absolute value of Feynman's integrand is not integrable, then Lebesgue integration…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Ricardo Gaitan , M. Guadalupe Morales

Feynman's Lagrangian path integral was an outgrowth of Dirac's vague surmise that Lagrangians have a role in quantum mechanics. Lagrangians implicitly incorporate Hamilton's first equation of motion, so their use contravenes the uncertainty…

General Physics · Physics 2010-11-19 Steven Kenneth Kauffmann

The Feynman path integral plays a crucial role in quantum mechanics, offering significant insights into the interaction between classical action and propagators, and linking quantum electrodynamics (QED) with Feynman diagrams. However, the…

General Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 W. Wen

The Feynman path integral of ordinary quantum mechanics is complexified and it is shown that possible integration cycles for this complexified integral are associated with branes in a two-dimensional A-model. This provides a fairly direct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-01 Edward Witten

Using improper Riemann integrals, we will formulate a rigorous version of the real-time, time-sliced Feynman path integral for the $L^2$ transition probability amplitude. We will do this for nonvector potential Hamiltonians with potential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ken Loo

Efforts to give an improved mathematical meaning to Feynman's path integral formulation of quantum mechanics started soon after its introduction and continue to this day. In the present paper, one common thread of development is followed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 John R. Klauder

The Feynman path integral approach to quantum mechanics is examined in the case where the configuration space is curved. It is shown how the ambiguity that is present in the choice of path integral measure may be resolved if, in addition to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 David J. Toms

Feynman path integrals provide an elegant, classically inspired representation for the quantum propagator and the quantum dynamics, through summing over a huge manifold of all possible paths. From computational and simulational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Yanming Che , Clemens Gneiting , Franco Nori

Feynman's path integral is generalized to quantum mechanics on p-adic space and time. Such p-adic path integral is analytically evaluated for quadratic Lagrangians. Obtained result has the same form as that one in ordinary quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branko Dragovich

Feynman's path integral formulation arose from his attempt to incorporate the Lagrangian framework into quantum mechanics, offering what he regarded as a more fundamental perspective than the Hamiltonian approach, particularly in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Bernat Frangi , Héctor López

The Feynman Path Integral is extended in order to capture all solutions of a quantum field theory. This is done via a choice of appropriate integration cycles, parametrized by M in SL(2,C), i.e., the space of allowed integration cycles is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 D. D. Ferrante , G. S. Guralnik , Z. Guralnik , C. Pehlevan

We will derive a rigorous real time propagator for the Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanic $L^2$ transition probability amplitude and for the Non-relativistic wave function. The propagator will be explicitly given in terms of the time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken Loo

The action for a relativistic free particle of mass $m$ receives a contribution $-mds$ from a path segment of infinitesimal length $ds$. Using this action in a path integral, one can obtain the Feynman propagator for a spinless particle of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Padmanabhan

Feynman's time-slicing construction approximates the path integral by a product, determined by a partition of a finite time interval, of approximate propagators. This paper formulates general conditions to impose on a short-time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Dana Fine , Stephen Sawin

A systematic classification of Feynman path integrals in quantum mechanics is presented and a table of solvable path integrals is given which reflects the progress made during the last ten years or so, including, of course, the main…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Grosche , Frank Steiner

Richard Feynman's method of path integrals is based on the fundamental assumption that a system starting at a point A and arriving at a point B takes all possible paths from A to B, with each path contributing its own (complex) probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-06 Masud Mansuripur

The Feynman path integral representation of quantum theory is used in a non--parametric Bayesian approach to determine quantum potentials from measurements on a canonical ensemble. This representation allows to study explicitly the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Lemm , J. Uhlig , A. Weiguny

Feynman's path integral approach is studied in the framework of the Wigner-Dunkl deformation of quantum mechanics. We start with reviewing some basics from Dunkl theory and investigate the time evolution of a Gaussian wave packet, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Georg Junker

We {\em derive} the exact configuration space path integral, together with the way how to evaluate it, from the Hamiltonian approach for any quantum mechanical system in flat spacetime whose Hamiltonian has at most two momentum operators.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Skenderis , P. van Nieuwenhuizen

The Feynman path integral has revolutionized modern approaches to quantum physics. Although the path integral formalism has proven very successful and spawned several approximation schemes, the direct evaluation of real-time path integrals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Job Feldbrugge , Joshua Y. L. Jones