Exact evolution operator on noncompact group manifolds

DOI10.1063/1.533401MaRDI QIDQ2738105zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nurit Krausz, M. S. Marinov

Publication date 30 August 2001

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9709050

zbMATH Keywords

Green's functionHelmholtz equationLaplace-Beltrami operatorsemiclassical approximationspectral expansionrepresentation charactersFeynman's evolution kernelquantum motion on group manifoldsreal analytical groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) General mathematical topics and methods in quantum theory (81Q99) Groups and algebras in quantum theory (81R99)

Abstract: Free quantal motion on group manifolds is considered. The Hamiltonian is given by the Laplace -- Beltrami operator on the group manifold, and the purpose is to get the (Feynman's) evolution kernel. The spectral expansion, which produced a series of the representation characters for the evolution kernel in the compact case, does not exist for non-compact group, where the spectrum is not bounded. In this work real analytical groups are investigated, some of which are of interest for physics. An integral representation for the evolution operator is obtained in terms of the Green function, i.e. the solution to the Helmholz equation on the group manifold. The alternative series expressions for the evolution operator are reconstructed from the same integral representation, the spectral expansion (when exists) and the sum over classical paths. For non-compact groups, the latter can be interpreted as the (exact) semi-classical approximation, like in the compact case. The explicit form of the evolution operator is obtained for a number of non-compact groups.

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