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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

The general Besselian and Legendrian path integrals

Christian Grosche

Published Apr 21, 1996• 10 citations
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Abstract

The general Besselian and Legendrian path integrals based on the confluent and hypergeometric Natanzon potentials are calculated. These two solutions cover all other path-integral representations which are related to the radial harmonic oscillator and the (modified) Pöschl - Teller path integral.
DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/29/8/002

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