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We argue that conformal invariance in flat spacetime implies Weyl invariance in a general curved background metric for all unitary theories in spacetime dimensions $d \leq 10$. We also study possible curvature corrections to the Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Kara Farnsworth , Markus A. Luty , Valentina Prilepina

We present a new method for the consistent construction of time-continuous coherent-state path integrals using the theory of half-form quantization. Through the inversion of the quantization procedure we construct a de-quantization map…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-25 P. Lykourgias , I. Lyris , A. I. Karanikas

The problem of UV divergences in QFT has long been a fundamental challenge. Standard regularization techniques modify high-energy behavior to ensure well-defined integrals. However, these approaches often introduce unphysical parameters,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-21 Daniel Ketels

We emphasize the close relationship between zeta function methods and arbitrary spectral cutoff regularizations in curved spacetime. This yields, on the one hand, a physically sound and mathematically rigorous justification of the standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Adel Bilal , Frank Ferrari

Canonical quantization may be approached from several different starting points. The usual approaches involve promotion of c-numbers to q-numbers, or path integral constructs, each of which generally succeeds only in Cartesian coordinates.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 John R. Klauder

A simple mapping procedure is presented by which classical orbits and path integrals for the motion of a point particle in flat space can be transformed directly into those in curved space with torsion. Our procedure evolved from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 H. Kleinert

This paper focuses on the regularization of backward time-fractional diffusion problem on unbounded domain. This problem is well-known to be ill-posed, whence the need of a regularization method in order to recover stable approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Walter Simo Tao Lee

We regularize in a continuous manner the path integral of QED by construction of a non-local version of its action by means of a regularized form of Dirac's $\delta$ functions. Since the action and the measure are both invariant under the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-07 J. L. Jacquot

The physical phase space of gauge field theories on a cylindrical spacetime with an arbitrary compact simple gauge group is shown to be the quotient $ {\bf R}^{2r}/W_A, $ $ r $ a rank of the gauge group, $ W_A $ the affine Weyl group. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Sergey V. Shabanov

The normalization in the path integral approach to quantum field theory, in contrast with statistical field theory, can contain physical information. The main claim of this paper is that the inner product on the space of field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-02 I. M. Burbano , Francisco Calderón

We present a phase space formulation of quantum mechanics in the Schr\"odinger representation and derive the associated Weyl pseudo-differential calculus. We prove that the resulting theory is unitarily equivalent to the standard…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-14 Nuno Costa Dias , Maurice de Gosson , Franz Luef , João Nuno Prata

The worldline approach to Quantum Field Theory (QFT) allows to efficiently compute several quantities, such as one-loop effective actions, scattering amplitudes and anomalies, which are linked to particle path integrals on the circle. A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-07 Olindo Corradini , Maurizio Muratori

Within an effective field theory framework we compute the most general structure of the one-loop corrections to the 4D gauge couplings in one- and two-dimensional orbifold compactifications with non-vanishing constant gauge background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 D. M. Ghilencea

Phase space path integral is worked out in a riemannian geometry, by employing a prescription for the infinitesimal propagator that takes riemannian normal coordinates and momenta on an equal footing. The operator ordering induced by this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Ferraro , M. Leston

A Lorentz and gauge symmetry preserving regularization method is discussed in four dimension based on momentum cutoff. We use the conditions of gauge invariance or equivalently the freedom of shift of the loop momentum to define the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-25 G. Cynolter , E. Lendvai

A regularization renormalization method ($RRM$) in quantum field theory ($QFT$) is discussed with simple rules: Once a divergent integral $I$ is encountered, we first take its derivative with respect to some mass parameter enough times,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 Guang-jiong Ni , Jianjun Xu , Senyue Lou

We give insight into the critical problem of an open resonator that is subject to a perturbation outside of its cavity region. We utilize the framework of quasinormal modes (QNMs), which are the natural mode solutions to the open boundary…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-12 Sebastian Franke , Juanjuan Ren , Stephen Hughes

One of critical components of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) and Cosmology (LQC) -- Thiemann regularization procedure is non-unique. Different choices of particular prescriptions lead to models which differ in both mathematical structure and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-26 Maciej Kowalczyk , Tomasz Pawłowski

The equivalence postulate approach to quantum mechanics aims to formulate quantum mechanics from a fundamental geometrical principle. Underlying the formulation there exists a basic cocycle condition which is invariant under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-20 Alon E. Faraggi , Marco Matone

We extend the Levi-Civita (L-C) and Kustaanheimo-Stiefel (K-S) regularization methods that maps the classical system where a particle moves under the combined influence of $\frac{1}{r}$ and $r^2$ potentials to a harmonic oscillator with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 E. Harikumar , Suman Kumar Panja , Partha Guha