Gauss sums and quantum mechanics

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/33/34/305MaRDI QIDQ4520682zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. V. Armitage, Alice Rogers

Publication date 13 December 2000

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/0003107

zbMATH Keywords

Feynman's sumKelvin's method of imagesLandsberg-Schaar identityphase space is a torus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Exponential sums and character sums (11L99)

Abstract: By adapting Feynman's sum over paths method to a quantum mechanical system whose phase space is a torus, a new proof of the Landsberg-Schaar identity for quadratic Gauss sums is given. In contrast to existing non-elementary proofs, which use infinite sums and a limiting process or contour integration, only finite sums are involved. The toroidal nature of the classical phase space leads to discrete position and momentum, and hence discrete time. The corresponding `path integrals' are finite sums whose normalisations are derived and which are shown to intertwine cyclicity and discreteness to give a finite version of Kelvin's method of images.

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