Path integration on Hermitian hyperbolic space

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/38/16/011MaRDI QIDQ4682135zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Grosche

Publication date 9 June 2005

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0411053

zbMATH Keywords

path integralquantum theory in curved spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

Abstract: In this paper the path integral technique is applied to the quantum motion on the Hermitian hyperbolic space HH(2). The Schr"odinger equation on this space separates in 12 coordinate systems which are closely related to the coordinate systems on the two-dimensional hyperboloid. For six coordinate systems out of the twelve it is possible to find a path integral solution.

Review text

The path integral method is applied to describe motion of free quantum particle on the Hermitian hyperbolic space HH(2) where it is denoted HH\((n) = \text{SU}(n,1)/ \text{S}[\text{U}(1)\times \text{U}(n)]\). The group \(\text{SU}(n,1)\) is an isometry group on the space HH\((n)\) leaving invariant the Hermitian form in it. Earlier C. P. Boyer et al., making use of the maximal Abelian subgroups of \(\text{SU}(2,1)\), found 12 coordinate systems in HH(2) that allow separation of variables in the Schrödinger equation and path integral on this space. It is shown in the reviewed paper that in six of the twelve systems the path integral can be evaluated explicitly.

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