scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1124115

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Authors Pierre Cartier, Cécile DeWitt-Morette

Publication date 31 March 1998

zbMATH Keywords

causticsfunctional integrationMorse lemmasemiclassical approximationspace of paths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles of physics (49S05) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)

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