Decomposition of time-ordered products and path-ordered exponentials

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DOI10.1063/1.532550zbMATH Open0986.81066arXivhep-th/9804181OpenAlexW3105439593MaRDI QIDQ4701503FDOQ4701503


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Publication date: 21 November 1999

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

Abstract: We present a decomposition formula for Un, an integral of time-ordered products of operators, in terms of sums of products of the more primitive quantities Cm, which are the integrals of time-ordered commutators of the same operators. The resulting factorization enables a summation over n to be carried out to yield an explicit expression for the time-ordered exponential, an expression which turns out to be an exponential function of Cm. The Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff formula and the nonabelian eikonal formula obtained previously are both special cases of this result.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9804181




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