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Functional Integration: Action and Symmetries This page intentionally left blank FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION Functional integration successfully entered physics as path integrals in the 1942 Ph.D. dissertation of Richard P. Feynman, but it made no sense at all as a math- ematical definition. Cartier and DeWitt-Morette have created, in this book, a new approach to functional integration. The close collaboration between a math- ematician and a physicist brings a unique perspective to this topic. The book is self-contained: mathematical ideas are introduced, developed, generalized, and applied. In the authors’ hands, functional integration is shown to be a robust, user-friendly, and multi-purpose tool that can be applied to a great variety of situations, for example systems of indistinguishable particles, caustics-analysis, superanalysis, and non-gaussian integrals. Problems in quantum field theory are also considered. In the final part the authors outline topics that can profitably be pursued using material already presented. Pierre Cartier is a mathematician with an extraordinarily wide range of interests and expertise. He has been called “un homme de la Renaissance.” He is Emeritus Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, and a long-term visitor of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques. From 1981 to 1989, he was a senior researcher at the Ecole Poly- technique de Paris, and, between 1988 and 1997, held a professorship at the Ecole Normale Sup´erieure. He is a member of the Soci´et´e Math´ematique de France, the American Mathematical Society, and the Vietnamese Mathematical Society. C ecile´ DeWitt-Morette is the Jane and Roland Blumberg Centen- nial Professor in Physics, Emerita, at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a member of the American and European Physical Societies, and a Mem- bre d’Honneur de la Soci´et´eFran¸caise de Physique. DeWitt-Morette’s interest in functional integration began in 1948. In F. J. Dyson’s words, “she was the first of the younger generation to grasp the full scope and power of the Feynman path integral approach in physics.” She is co-author with Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat of the two-volume book Analysis, Manifolds and Physics, a standard text first published in 1977, which is now in its seventh edition. She is the author of 100 publications in various areas of theoretical physics and has edited 28 books. She has lectured, worldwide, in many institutions and summer schools on topics related to functional integration. CAMBRIDGE MONOGRAPHS ON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS General editors: P. V. Landshoff, D. R. Nelson, S. Weinberg S. J. Aarseth Gravitational N-Body Simulations J. Ambjørn, B. Durhuus and T. Jonsson Quantum Geometry: A Statistical Field Theory Approach† A. M. Anile Relativistic Fluids and Magneto-Fluids† J. A. de Azc´arrage and J. M. 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CARTIER AND C. DEWITT-MORETTE cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 2ru, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521866965 © P. Cartier and C. DeWitt-Morette 2006 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2006 isbn-13 978-0-511-26029-2 eBook (EBL) isbn-10 0-511-26029-6 eBook (EBL) isbn-13 978-0-521-86696-5 hardback isbn-10 0-521-86696-0 hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Contents Acknowledgements page xi List of symbols, conventions, and formulary xv PART I THE PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL ENVIRONMENT 1 The physical and mathematical environment3 A: An inheritance from physics 3 1.1 The beginning3 1.2 Integrals over function spaces6 1.3 The operator formalism6 1.4 A few titles7 B: A toolkit from analysis 9 1.5 A tutorial in Lebesgue integration9 1.6 Stochastic processes and promeasures 15 1.7 Fourier transformation and prodistributions 19 C: Feynman’s integral versus Kac’s integral 23 1.8 Planck’s blackbody radiation law 23 1.9 Imaginary time and inverse temperature 26 1.10 Feynman’s integral versus Kac’s integral 27 1.11 Hamiltonian versus lagrangian 29 References 31 PART II QUANTUM MECHANICS 2 First lesson: gaussian integrals 35 2.1 Gaussians in R 35 2.2 Gaussians in RD 35 2.3 Gaussians on a Banach space 38 v vi Contents 2.4 Variances and covariances 42 2.5 Scaling and coarse-graining 46 References 55 3 Selected examples 56 3.1 The Wiener measure and brownian paths 57 3.2 Canonical gaussians in L2 and L2,1 59 3.3 The forced harmonic oscillator 63 3.4 Phase-space path integrals 73 References 76 4 Semiclassical expansion; WKB 78 4.1 Introduction 78 4.2 The WKB approximation 80 4.3 An example: the anharmonic oscillator 88 4.4 Incompatibility with analytic continuation 92 4.5 Physical interpretation of the WKB approximation 93 References 94 5 Semiclassical expansion; beyond WKB 96 5.1 Introduction 96 5.2 Constants of the motion 100 5.3 Caustics 101 5.4 Glory scattering 104 5.5 Tunneling 106 References 111 6 Quantum dynamics: path integrals and the operator formalism 114 6.1 Physical dimensions and expansions 114 6.2 A free particle 115 6.3 Particles in a scalar potential V 118 6.4 Particles in a vector potential A 126 6.5 Matrix elements and kernels 129 References 130 PART III METHODS FROM DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY 7 Symmetries 135 7.1 Groups of transformations. Dynamical vector fields 135 7.2 A basic theorem 137 Contents vii 7.3 The group of transformations on a frame bundle 139 7.4 Symplectic manifolds 141 References 144 8 Homotopy 146 8.1 An example: quantizing a spinning top 146 8.2 Propagators on SO(3) and SU(2) 147 8.3 The homotopy theorem for path integration 150 8.4 Systems of indistinguishable particles.
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