Feynman's propagator in Schwinger's picture of quantum mechanics

DOI10.1142/S021773232150187XMaRDI QIDQ5067285zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Florio M. Ciaglia, Luca Schiavone, Alessandro Zampini, Fabio Di Cosmo, A. Ibort, Giuseppe Marmo

Publication date 1 April 2022

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05756

zbMATH Keywords

\(q\)-LagrangianFeynman's propagatorgroupoid algebrasgroupoidsstates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groupoids (i.e. small categories in which all morphisms are isomorphisms) (20L05) Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10) Lagrange's equations (70H03) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50)

Abstract: A novel derivation of Feynman's sum-over-histories construction of the quantum propagator using the groupoidal description of Schwinger picture of Quantum Mechanics is presented. It is shown that such construction corresponds to the GNS representation of a natural family of states called Dirac-Feynman-Schwinger (DFS) states. Such states are obtained from a q-Lagrangian function $ell$ on the groupoid of configurations of the system. The groupoid of histories of the system is constructed and the q-Lagrangian $ell$ allow to define a DFS state on the algebra of the groupoid. The particular instance of the groupoid of pairs of a Riemannian manifold serves to illustrate Feynman's original derivation of the propagator for a point particle described by a classical Lagrangian $L$.

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