Path integrals, supersymmetric quantum mechanics, and the Atiyah-Singer index theorem for twisted Dirac

DOI10.1063/1.4973368zbMATH Open1361.81055arXiv1605.06982OpenAlexW3103538725MaRDI QIDQ2963280FDOQ2963280

Authors: Stephen Sawin, Dana Fine 

Publication date: 13 February 2017

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

Abstract: Feynman's time-slicing construction approximates the path integral by a product, determined by a partition of a finite time interval, of approximate propagators. This paper formulates general conditions to impose on a short-time approximation to the propagator in a general class of imaginary-time quantum mechanics on a Riemannian manifold which ensure these products converge. The limit defines a path integral which agrees pointwise with the heat kernel for a generalized Laplacian. The result is a rigorous construction of the propagator for supersymmetric quantum mechanics, with potential, as a path integral. Further, the class of Laplacians includes the square of the twisted Dirac operator, which corresponds to an extension of N=1/2 supersymmetric quantum mechanics. General results on the rate of convergence of the approximate path integrals suffice in this case to derive the local version of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06982

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Heat kernel (35K08) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Index theory (19K56) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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