Functional equations for path integrals

DOI10.1007/BF01015733MaRDI QIDQ1071383zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eugene P. Gross

Publication date 1984

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01015733

zbMATH Keywords

electron-phonon interactionfunctional equationspath integral representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Matrix and operator functional equations (39B42) Stochastic analysis (60H99) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30)

Review text

We consider the density matrices that arise in the statistical mechanics of the electron-phonon systems. In the path integral representation the phonon coordinates can be eliminated. This leads to an action that depends on pairs of points on a path, that depends explicitly on time differences, and that contains the phonon occupation numbers. The integral is reduced to a standard form by scaling to the thermal length. We use the technique of integration by parts and add specially chosen generating functionals to the action. We set down functional derivative equations for the source-dependent density matrix and for the mass operator.

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