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The Feynman integrand as a white noise distribution beyond perturbation theory

Martin Grothaus, Anna Vogel, Christopher Casenas Bernido, M. Victoria Carpio-Bernido

Published Jan 1, 2008• 4 citations

Abstract

In this note the concepts of path integrals and techniques how to construct them are presented. Here we concentrate on a White Noise approach. Combining White Noise techniques with a generalized time‐dependent Doss' formula Feynman integrands are constructed as white noise distributions beyond perturbation theory.

DOI: 10.1063/1.2956797

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