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