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

DOI10.1142/S021773232150187XzbMATH Open1489.81032arXiv2109.05756MaRDI QIDQ5067285FDOQ5067285

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)

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 $L$.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

statesgroupoidsgroupoid algebras\(q\)-LagrangianFeynman's propagator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Groupoids (i.e. small categories in which all morphisms are isomorphisms) (20L05)

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