Title:
Functional integration and quantum physics
Series:
Pure and applied mathematics : a series of monographs and textbooks
Publication Information:
New York : Academic Press, 1979
ISBN:
9780126442502
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Table of Contents
Preface to Second Edition | p. vii |
Preface | p. ix |
List of Symbols | p. xi |
I Introduction | |
1 Introduction | p. 1 |
2 Construction of Gaussian Processes | p. 8 |
3 Some Fundamental Tools of Probability Theory | p. 17 |
II The Basic Processes | |
4 The Wiener Process, the Oscillator Process, and the Brownian Bridge | p. 32 |
5 Regularity Properties-1 | p. 43 |
6 The Feynman-Kac Formula | p. 48 |
7 Regularity and Recurrence Properties-2 | p. 60 |
III Bound State Problems | |
8 The Birman-Schwinger Kernel and Lieb's Formula | p. 88 |
9 Phase Space Bounds | p. 93 |
10 The Classical Limit | p. 105 |
11 Recurrence and Weak Coupling | p. 114 |
IV Inequalities | |
12 Correlation Inequalities | p. 119 |
13 Other Inequalities: Log Concavity, Symmetric Rearrangement, Conditioning, Hypercontractivity | p. 136 |
V Magnetic Fields and Stochastic Integrals | |
14 Ito's Integral | p. 148 |
15 Schrodinger Operators with Magnetic Fields | p. 159 |
16 Introduction to Stochastic Calculus | p. 170 |
VI Asymptotics | |
17 Donsker's Theorem | p. 174 |
18 Laplace's Method in Function Space | p. 181 |
19 Introduction to the Donsker-Varadhan Theory | p. 198 |
VII Other Topics | |
20 Perturbation Theory for the Ground State Energy | p. 211 |
21 Dirichlet Boundaries and Decoupling Singularities in Scattering Theory | p. 224 |
22 Crushed Ice and the Wiener Sausage | p. 231 |
23 The Statistical Mechanics of Charged Particles with Positive Definite Interactions | p. 245 |
24 An Introduction to Euclidean Quantum Field Theory | p. 252 |
25 Properties of Eigenfunctions, Wave Packets, and Green's Functions | p. 258 |
26 Inverse Problems and the Feynman-Kac Formula | p. 272 |
References | p. 279 |
Index | p. 293 |
Bibliographic Supplement | p. 297 |
Bibliography | p. 301 |