Canonical transformation in the path integral and the operator formalism

DOI10.1016/0003-4916(88)90049-8MaRDI QIDQ1102607zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hiroki Fukutaka, Taro Kashiwa

Publication date 1988

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-4916(88)90049-8

zbMATH Keywords

classical mechanicsinfinitesimal transformationsmaster equationpath integralSchrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

Review text

A general framework of canonical transformations in the path integral is presented under the guidance of classical mechanics. The master equation is given in terms of the difference instead of the differential in classical mechanics. In the case of infinitesimal transformations the operator counterpart is found to be a PQ-ordered form of the classical generator. A path integral formula for polar coordinates is also discussed to be understood as a faithful representation of the Schrödinger equation.

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