The Jacobi principal function in quantum mechanics

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/13/010MaRDI QIDQ4258309zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rafael Ferraro

Publication date 12 September 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9611040

zbMATH Keywords

path integralphase spacecanonical functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

Abstract: The canonical functional action in the path integral in phase space is discretized by linking each pair of consecutive vertebral points --$$ and $$ or $$ and $$-- through the invariant complete solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation associated with the classical path defined by these extremes. When the measure is chosen to reflect the geometrical character of the propagator (it must behave as a density of weight 1/2 in both of its arguments), the resulting infinitesimal propagator is cast in the form of an expansion in a basis of short-time solutions of the wave equation, associated with the eigenfunctions of the initial momenta canonically conjugated to a set of normal coordinates. The operator ordering induced by this prescription is a combination of a symmetrization rule coming from the phase, and a derivative term coming from the measure.

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