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

DOI10.1007/S11854-019-0003-0zbMATH Open1417.81145arXiv1506.01275OpenAlexW2963693404WikidataQ128270900 ScholiaQ128270900MaRDI QIDQ2000402FDOQ2000402

Fabio Nicola

Publication date: 28 June 2019

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

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.

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)

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