The functional integral for quantum systems with Hamiltonians unbounded from below (Q808078): Difference between revisions

The Brownian functional integrals which diverge for all time are studied. For the one-dimensional non-relativistic quantum mechanics with potentials which are unbounded from below at infinity and at the origin it is shown how to regulate the Brownian functional integral, analytically continue to quantum mechanical time, and then to remove the cutoff to obtain the quantum Green's function associated with any self- adjoint Hamiltonian. Such a construction illustrates the equivalence of the operator and functional integral approaches to quantum mechanics.