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Functional integration and quantum physics
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Pure and applied mathematics : a series of monographs and textbooks
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New York : Academic Press, 1979
ISBN:
9780126442502
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Table of Contents

Preface to Second Editionp. vii
Prefacep. ix
List of Symbolsp. xi
I Introduction
1 Introductionp. 1
2 Construction of Gaussian Processesp. 8
3 Some Fundamental Tools of Probability Theoryp. 17
II The Basic Processes
4 The Wiener Process, the Oscillator Process, and the Brownian Bridgep. 32
5 Regularity Properties-1p. 43
6 The Feynman-Kac Formulap. 48
7 Regularity and Recurrence Properties-2p. 60
III Bound State Problems
8 The Birman-Schwinger Kernel and Lieb's Formulap. 88
9 Phase Space Boundsp. 93
10 The Classical Limitp. 105
11 Recurrence and Weak Couplingp. 114
IV Inequalities
12 Correlation Inequalitiesp. 119
13 Other Inequalities: Log Concavity, Symmetric Rearrangement, Conditioning, Hypercontractivityp. 136
V Magnetic Fields and Stochastic Integrals
14 Ito's Integralp. 148
15 Schrodinger Operators with Magnetic Fieldsp. 159
16 Introduction to Stochastic Calculusp. 170
VI Asymptotics
17 Donsker's Theoremp. 174
18 Laplace's Method in Function Spacep. 181
19 Introduction to the Donsker-Varadhan Theoryp. 198
VII Other Topics
20 Perturbation Theory for the Ground State Energyp. 211
21 Dirichlet Boundaries and Decoupling Singularities in Scattering Theoryp. 224
22 Crushed Ice and the Wiener Sausagep. 231
23 The Statistical Mechanics of Charged Particles with Positive Definite Interactionsp. 245
24 An Introduction to Euclidean Quantum Field Theoryp. 252
25 Properties of Eigenfunctions, Wave Packets, and Green's Functionsp. 258
26 Inverse Problems and the Feynman-Kac Formulap. 272
Referencesp. 279
Indexp. 293
Bibliographic Supplementp. 297
Bibliographyp. 301