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Pacific Journal of Mathematics

Notes on the Feynman integral. III. The Schroedinger equation

Gerald Johnson, David Skoug

Published Apr 1, 1983• 45 citations
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Abstract

In the setting of Cameron and Storvick's recent theory we show that the solution of an integral equation formally equivalent to the Schroedinger equation is expressible as the analytic Feynman integral of a function on ^-dimensional Wiener space of the form F(X) = exp{/ o '0(ίs, X(s) + I) ds}ψ(X(t\+ ?).Here Xis an Revalued continuous function on [0, /] such that Z(0) = 0, ?G R\ and ψ and θ(s, ) are Fourier-Stieltjes transforms.REMARK 3.2.Corollary 3.2 and Lemma 3.2 will yield the measurability properties that we will need as we continue.For example, let θ be in % and for λ > 0 and fin W let G: [0, ί 0 ] X C[0, t 0 ] -> C be defined by The Pacific

DOI
10.2140/pjm.1983.105.321

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