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Path Integrals on Manifolds with Boundary

Differential Geometry 2022-01-19 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We give time-slicing path integral formulas for solutions to the heat equation corresponding to a self-adjoint Laplace type operator acting on sections of a vector bundle over a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. More specifically, we show that such a solution can be approximated by integrals over finite-dimensional path spaces of piecewise geodesics subordinated to increasingly fine partitions of the time interval. We consider a subclass of mixed boundary conditions which includes standard Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions.

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@article{arxiv.1607.05151,
  title  = {Path Integrals on Manifolds with Boundary},
  author = {Matthias Ludewig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.05151},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

23 pages, to appear in Comm. Math. Phys

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