Field theory methods in classical dynamics

DOI10.1023/A:1019607117138MaRDI QIDQ1855302zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 4 February 2003

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0411273

zbMATH Keywords

path integralsquantum field theoryBerry phaseDirac picture perturbation theorygeometrical Berry phasepath integral expressionphase space analysesphase space complexificationSchwinger-Feynman-Dyson perturbation expansiontime evolution in classical dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

Abstract: A Dirac picture perturbation theory is developed for the time evolution operator in classical dynamics in the spirit of the Schwinger-Feynman-Dyson perturbation expansion and detailed rules are derived for computations. Complexification formalisms are given for the time evolution operator suitable for phase space analyses, and then extended to a two-dimensional setting for a study of the geometrical Berry phase as an example. Finally a direct integration of Hamilton's equations is shown to lead naturally to a path integral expression, as a resolution of the identity, as applied to arbitrary functions of generalized coordinates and momenta.

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