Renormalized integrals and a path integral formula for the heat kernel on a manifold

DOI10.1090/CONM/584/11592zbMATH Open1317.58039arXiv1202.3392OpenAlexW4231314790MaRDI QIDQ5265430FDOQ5265430

Christian Bär

Publication date: 28 July 2015

Published in: Analysis, Geometry and Quantum Field Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce renormalized integrals which generalize conventional measure theoretic integrals. One approximates the integration domain by measure spaces and defines the integral as the limit of integrals over the approximating spaces. This concept is implicitly present in many mathematical contexts such as Cauchy's principal value, the determinant of operators on a Hilbert space and the Fourier transform of an $L^p$-function. We use renormalized integrals to define a path integral on manifolds by approximation via geodesic polygons. The main part of the paper is dedicated to the proof of a path integral formula for the heat kernel of any self-adjoint generalized Laplace operator acting on sections of a vector bundle over a compact Riemannian manifold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3392

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds (58J65) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Schrödinger and Feynman-Kac semigroups (47D08)

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• Approximation schemes for path integration on Riemannian manifolds
• Local limit theorems for complex functions on \(\mathbb{Z}^d\)
• Path integral formulae for heat kernels and their derivatives
• Heat kernel asymptotics, path integrals and infinite-dimensional determinants

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