Mellin-type Functional Integrals with Applications
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Abstract: Conventional functional/path integrals used in physics most often are defined as infinite-dimensional analogs of Fourier transforms. The infinite-dimensional analogs of Mellin transforms similarly define a class of functional integrals. The associated functional integrals are useful tools for probing non-commutative function spaces in general and -algebras in particular. Functional Mellin transforms can be used to define functional resolvents, functional complex powers, functional traces, functional logarithms, and functional determinants. Several aspects of these objects are explored and applied to various constructs in mathematical physics. Two are of particular note: 1) Certain fractional power operators (perhaps coincidentally) reproduce the channels and crossing symmetry of tree-level open tachyon string scattering processes, and their algebraic product parallels the gauge-gravity relation of Kawai-Lewellen-Tye. 2) The functional complex power of the generating functional of -point functions in QFT and its functional logarithm are employed to justify the replica trick.
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