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In the first part of the paper we provide a survey of recent results concerning the problem of pointwise convergence of integral kernels in Feynman path integral, obtained by means of time-frequency analysis techniques. We then focus on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Hans G. Feichtinger , Fabio Nicola , S. Ivan Trapasso

The Feynman checkerboard problem is an interesting path integral approach to the Dirac equation in `1+1' dimensions. I compare two approaches reported in the literature and show how they may be reconciled. Some physical insights may be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-08 Keith A. Earle

In the probability representation of the standard quantum mechanics, the explicit expression (and its quasiclassical van-Fleck approximation) for the ``classical'' propagator (transition probability distribution), which completely describes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Olga Man'ko , V. I. Man'ko

This article provides a new theory for the analysis of forward and backward particle approximations of Feynman-Kac models. Such formulae are found in a wide variety of applications and their numerical (particle) approximation are required…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-17 Hock Peng Chan , Pierre Del Moral , Ajay Jasra

The mathematical similarities between non-relativistic wavefunction propagation in quantum mechanics and image propagation in scalar diffraction theory are used to develop a novel understanding of time and paths through spacetime as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Sky Nelson-Isaacs

For a fixed Feynman graph one can consider Feynman integrals with all possible powers of propagators and try to reduce them, by linear relations, to a finite subset of integrals, the so-called master integrals. Up to now, there are numerous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-07 A. V. Smirnov , A. V. Petukhov

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

We present an explicit path integral evaluation of the free Hamiltonian propagator on the (D-1)-dimensional pseudosphere, in the horicyclic coordinates, using the integral equation method. This method consists in deriving an integral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans J. Wospakrik

We consider scalar field theory in a changing background field. As an example we study the simple case of a spatially varying mass for which we construct the semiclassical approximation to the propagator. The semiclassical dispersion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Joyce , Kimmo Kainulainen , Tomislav Prokopec

The concept of a propagator is useful and is a well-known object in diffusion NMR experiments. Here, we investigate the related concept; the propagator for the magnetisation or the Green's function of the Torrey-Bloch equations. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-25 Robin A. Damion

The Feynman path integral formalism has inspired the development of memory-efficient and parallelizable classical algorithms for simulating quantum computers. We adapt this approach for the calculation of probability amplitudes of…

We provide high-energy approximations for all one-loop scalar 3- and 4-point functions and the corresponding tensor integrals that appear in scattering processes with four external on-shell particles. Our expressions are valid if all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Roth , A. Denner

We study multiplicative Diophantine approximation property of vectors and compute Diophantine exponents of hyperplanes via dynamics.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-09-03 Yuqing Zhang

Representations of propagators by means of path integrals over velocities are discussed both in nonrelativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics. It is shown that all the propagators can only be expressed through bosonic path integrals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Gitman , Sh. M. Shvartsman

The purpose of this article is to propose a new method to define and calculate path integrals over metrics on a K\"ahler manifold. The main idea is to use finite dimensional spaces of Bergman metrics, as an approximation to the full space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-15 Frank Ferrari , Semyon Klevtsov , Steve Zelditch

A new approach to compute Feynman Integrals is presented. It relies on an integral representation of a given Feynman Integral in terms of simpler ones. Using this approach, we present, for the first time, results for a certain family of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Costas G. Papadopoulos , Christopher Wever

This model is one of the possible geometrical interpretations of Quantum Mechanics where found to every image Path correspondence the geodesic trajectory of classical test particles in the random geometry of the stochastic fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-28 Timur F. Kamalov

The effects of the propagation of particles which have a finite life-time and an according broad distribution in their mass spectrum are discussed in the context of a transport descriptions. In the first part some example cases of mesonic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Knoll , F. Riek , Yu. B. Ivanov , D. N. Voskresensky

Path integrals are a central tool when it comes to describing quantum or thermal fluctuations of particles or fields. Their success dates back to Feynman who showed how to use them within the framework of quantum mechanics. Since then, path…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-31 Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Vivien Lecomte , Frédéric Van Wijland

Feynman integrands are constructed as Hida distributions. For our approach we first have to construct solutions to a corresponding Schroedinger equation with time-dependent potential. This is done by a generalization of the Doss approach to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-05-22 Martin Grothaus , Ludwig Streit , Anna Vogel