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We discuss a recent approach to quantum field theoretical path integration on noncommutative geometries which imply UV/IR regularising finite minimal uncertainties in positions and/or momenta. One class of such noncommutative geometries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Achim Kempf

The alternative dynamics of loop quantum cosmology is examined by the path integral formulation. We consider the spatially flat FRW models with a massless scalar field, where the alternative quantization inherit more features from full loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Li Qin , Guo Deng , Yongge Ma

Recently, it was found that a new set of simple techniques allow one to conveniently express ordinary integrals through differentiation. These techniques add to the general toolbox for integration and integral transforms such as the Fourier…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-17 Achim Kempf , David M. Jackson , Alejandro H. Morales

Perturbative PT-symmetric quantum field theories with anti-Hermitian and P-odd interaction terms are studied in path integral formalism and the i phi^3 model is calculated in detail. The nonlocal field transformation induced by the C…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-30 Yi-Da Li , Qing Wang

We develop a dynamical symmetry approach to path integrals for general interacting quantum spin systems. The time-ordered exponential obtained after the Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation can be disentangled into the product of a finite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-25 Matous Ringel , Vladimir Gritsev

We investigate quantum gravity in the path integral formulation using the Regge calculus. Restricting the quadratic link lengths of the originally triangular lattice the path integral can be transformed to the partition function of a spin…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Beirl , Harald Markum , Juergen Riedler

Extension of Feynman's path integral to quantum mechanics of noncommuting spatial coordinates is considered. The corresponding formalism for noncommutative classical dynamics related to quadratic Lagrangians (Hamiltonians) is formulated.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Branko Dragovich , Zoran Rakic

The Feynman path integral does not allow a "one real path" interpretation, because amplitudes contribute to probabilities in a non-separable manner. The opposite extreme, "all paths happen", is not a useful or informative account. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 K. B. Wharton

We give a detailed exposition of the formalism of Kinetic Field Theory (KFT) with emphasis on the perturbative determination of observables. KFT is a statistical non-equilibrium classical field theory based on the path integral formulation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Lavinia Heisenberg , Shayan Hemmatyar , Stefan Zentarra

The very early universe is understood in terms of quantum field theories on curved spacetime, where the classical background spacetime is typically an FLRW cosmology and the quantum fields which propagate on it include gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-22 Alice Di Tucci

Introduction Path Integrals - Introduction - Propagator - Free Particle - Path Integral Representation of Quantum Mechanics - Particle on a Ring - Particle in a Box - Driven Harmonic Oscillator - Semiclassical Approximation - Imaginary Time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-25 Gert-Ludwig Ingold

Polyakov's spin factor enters as a weight in the path-integral description of particle-like modes propagating in Euclidean space-times, accounting for particle spin. The Fock-Feynman-Schwinger path integral applied to QCD accomodates…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 A. I. Karanikas , C. N. Ktorides

The cvariant path integral quantization of the theory of the scalar and spinor particles interacting through the abelian and non-Abelian Chern-Simons gauge fields is carried out and is shown to be mathematically ill defined due to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 V. Ya. Fainberg , N. K. Pak , M. S. Shikakhwa

The Wick rotation in quantum field theory is considered in terms of analytical continuation in the signature matrix parameter w = eta_00. Regularization of propagators by a complex metric parameter in most cases preserves (i) the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Vladimir D. Ivashchuk

We develop the structure theory for transformations of weakly geometric rough paths of bounded $1 < p$-variation and their controlled paths. Our approach differs from existing approaches as it does not rely on smooth approximations. We…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Thomas Cass , Bruce K. Driver , Christian Litterer , Emilio Ferrucci

In this contribution a path integral approach for the quantum motion on three-dimensional spaces according to Koenigs, for short``Koenigs-Spaces'', is discussed. Their construction is simple: One takes a Hamiltonian from three-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-24 Christian Grosche

Quantum Dirac constraints in generic constrained system are solved by directly calculating in the one-loop approximation the path integral with relativistic gauge fixing procedure. The calculations are based on the reduction algorithms for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. O. Barvinsky

The transformation of the path integral measure under the reduction procedure in the dynamical systems with a symmetry is considered. The investigation is carried out in the case of the Wiener--type path integrals that are used for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. N. Storchak

Using the path-integral formalism, we generalize the 't Hooft-Veltman method of unitary regulators to put forward a framework for finite, alternative quantum theories to a given quantum field theory. Feynman-like rules of such a finite,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marijan Ribaric , Luka Sustersic

We develop a path integrals approach for analyzing stationary light propagation appropriate for photonic crystals. The hermitian form of the stationary Maxwell equations is transformed into a quantum mechanical problem of a spin 1 particle…

Optics · Physics 2009-04-01 Yair Dimant , Shimon Levit