Stochastic representations of Feynman integration
J. Math. Phys. 48, 122106 (2007); doi:10.1063/1.2812416
Published 17 December 2007
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For polynomially bounded potentials V such that H=H0+V is essentially self-adjoint on S(Rd)
D(H0)
D(V), this essay offers two reconstructions of Feynman's sum over histories as the unitary image of a genuine integral with respect to Wiener measure µ of a functional 
(
) defined on the space W of Brownian paths
into momentum space Rd. The first representation, based on Feynman's original argument, “lifts” 
(
) from a “convolutional Trotter product formula” for the Fourier-transformed image
t(p) of the time-evolved wave function
t(x)=exp(−itH)
(x) in L2(Rd). The second—which varies and extends a construction introduced in a slightly different context by Albeverio and Høegh-Krohn [Mathematical Theory of Feynman Integrals, Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics Vol. 523 (Springer, New York, 1976)]—lifts the functional 
(
) from a “convolutional Dyson expansion” of the time-evolved momentum-space function
t(p).
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D(H0)
D(V), this essay offers two reconstructions of Feynman's sum over histories as the unitary image of a genuine integral with respect to Wiener measure µ of a functional 
) defined on the space W of Brownian paths
into momentum space Rd. The first representation, based on Feynman's original argument, “lifts” 
) from a “convolutional Trotter product formula” for the Fourier-transformed image
t(x)=exp(−itH)
(x) in L2(Rd). The second—which varies and extends a construction introduced in a slightly different context by Albeverio and Høegh-Krohn [Mathematical Theory of Feynman Integrals, Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics Vol. 523 (Springer, New York, 1976)]—lifts the functional 
) from a “convolutional Dyson expansion” of the time-evolved momentum-space function | History: | Received 15 March 2007; accepted 11 October 2007; published 17 December 2007 |
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