When physics helps mathematics: calculation of the sophisticated multiple integral

DOI10.1134/S1063779612060068arXiv1201.1975MaRDI QIDQ6230164FDOQ6230164

Authors: Arkady L. Kholodenko, Zurab Silagadze 

Publication date: 10 January 2012

Abstract: There exists a remarkable connection between the quantum mechanical Landau-Zener problem and purely classical-mechanical problem of a ball rolling on a Cornu spiral. This correspondence allows us to calculate a complicated multiple integral, a kind of multi-dimensional generalization of Fresnel integrals. A direct method of calculation is also considered but found to be successful only in some low-dimensional cases. As a byproduct of this direct method, an interesting new integral representation for $zeta(2)$ is obtained.

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