PERTURBATIVELY DEFINED EFFECTIVE CLASSICAL POTENTIAL IN CURVED SPACE

DOI10.1142/S0217751X03016471zbMATH Open1255.81202arXivquant-ph/0301081OpenAlexW1966571183MaRDI QIDQ4453777FDOQ4453777

A. Chervyakov, Hagen Kleinert

Publication date: 7 March 2004

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The partition function of a quantum statistical system in flat space can always be written as an integral over a classical Boltzmann factor $$, where $$ is the so-called effective classical potential containing the effects of all quantum fluctuations. The variable of integration is the temporal path average $$. We show how to generalize this concept to paths $q^{m}u(au)$ in curved space with metric $$, and calculate perturbatively the high-temperature expansion of $$. The requirement of independence under coordinate transformations $q^{m}u(au)oq{\text{'}}^{m}u(au)$ introduces subtleties in the definition and treatment of the path average $q_0^{m}u$, and covariance is achieved only with the help of a suitable Faddeev-Popov procedure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0301081

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicscurved spacefunctional analytical methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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• Perturbative quantum field theory in the string-inspired formalism
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• BRST treatment of zero modes for the worldline formalism in curved space
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