On the time slicing approximation of Feynman path integrals for non-smooth potentials

DOI10.1007/S11854-019-0003-0MaRDI QIDQ2000402zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Fabio Nicola

Publication date 28 June 2019

Published in Journal d'Analyse Mathématique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01275

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract approximation theory (approximation in normed linear spaces and other abstract spaces) (41A65) Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

Abstract: We consider the time slicing approximations of Feynman path integrals, constructed via piecewice classical paths. A detailed study of the convergence in the norm operator topology, in the space $mathcalB(L^2(mathbb{R}^d))$ of bounded operators on $L^2$, and even in finer operator topologies, was carried on by D. Fujiwara in the case of smooth potentials with an at most quadratic growth. In the present paper we show that the result about the convergence in $mathcalB(L^2(mathbb{R}^d))$ remains valid if the potential is only assumed to have second space derivatives in the Sobolev space $H^{d+1}(mathbb{R}^d)$ (locally and uniformly), uniformly in time. The proof is non-perturbative in nature, but relies on a precise short time analysis of the Hamiltonian flow at this Sobolev regularity and on the continuity in $L^2$ of certain oscillatory integral operators with non-smooth phase and amplitude.

Recommendations

• Approximation of Feynman path integrals with non-smooth potentials
• Smooth functional derivatives in Feynman path integrals by time slicing approximation
• On the pointwise convergence of the integral kernels in the Feynman-Trotter formula
• Convergence in \(L^{p}\) for Feynman path integrals
• Rigorous time slicing approach to Feynman path integrals

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3143880 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4007065 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3674568 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3774548 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3483022 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 522898 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 856929 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5934473 (Why is no real title available?)
• A construction of the fundamental solution for the Schrödinger equation
• A family of Fourier integral operators and the fundamental solution for a Schrödinger equation
• An integration by parts formula for Feynman path integrals
• Convergence in \(L^{p}\) for Feynman path integrals
• Convergence of the Feynman path integral in the weighted Sobolev spaces and the representation of correlation functions
• Dispersive estimates for principally normal pseudodifferential operators
• Estimations l²precisees pour des integrales oscillantes
• Feynman path integrals and semiclassical approximation
• Feynman path integrals as analysis on path space by time slicing approximation
• Generalized metaplectic operators and the Schrödinger equation with a potential in the Sjöstrand class
• Global L ²-Boundedness Theorems for a Class of Fourier Integral Operators
• Mathematical Feynman path integrals and their applications.
• Mathematical theory of Feynman path integrals. An introduction
• On Hörmander-Kato spaces
• On the regularity of the composition of diffeomorphisms
• Phase space Feynman path integrals via piecewise bicharacteristic paths and their semiclassical approximations
• Phase space Feynman path integrals with smooth functional derivatives by time slicing approximation
• Phase space transforms and microlocal analysis
• Remarks on Fujiwara’s stationary phase method on a space of large dimension with a phase function involving electromagnetic fields
• Remarks on convergence of the Feynman path integrals
• Results on convergence in norm of exponential product formulas and pointwise of the corresponding integral kernels
• Schrödinger equations with rough Hamiltonians
• Schrödinger evolution equations with magnetic fields
• Smooth functional derivatives in Feynman path integrals by time slicing approximation
• Space-time approach to non-relativistic quantum mechanics
• The Cauchy problem for quasi-linear symmetric hyperbolic systems
• The second term of the semi-classical asymptotic expansion for Feynman path integrals with integrand of polynomial growth
• The stationary phase method with an estimate of the remainder term on a space of large dimension
• The time slicing approximation of the fundamental solution for the Schrödinger equation with electromagnetic fields
• The weak inverse mapping theorem
• Wave packet analysis of Schrödinger equations in analytic function spaces
• Wave packet parametrices for evolutions governed by pdo's with rough symbols

Cited in

(11)

• Mathematical theory of Feynman path integrals
• On the Convergence of a Novel Time-Slicing Approximation Scheme for Feynman Path Integrals
• Approximation of Feynman path integrals with non-smooth potentials
• On the pointwise convergence of the integral kernels in the Feynman-Trotter formula
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5608445 (Why is no real title available?)
• On the approximation of Feynman-Kac path integrals
• Continuity of the integral kernel of Schrödinger propagator
• On exceptional times for pointwise convergence of integral kernels in Feynman-Trotter path integrals
• Smooth functional derivatives in Feynman path integrals by time slicing approximation
• Phase space Feynman path integrals of parabolic type on the torus as analysis on path space
• Convergence in \(L^{p}\) for Feynman path integrals

This page was built for publication: On the time slicing approximation of Feynman path integrals for non-smooth potentials

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2000402)