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

Berry phaseDirac picture perturbation theorygeometrical Berry phasepath integral expressionpath integralsphase space analysesphase space complexificationquantum field theorySchwinger-Feynman-Dyson perturbation expansiontime evolution in classical dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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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