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A Note on the extrinsic phase Space path Integral Method for quantization on Riemannian Manifold Particle Motions - An application of Nash Embedding Theorem

Published Feb 1, 2017• 0 citations
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We use Nash embedding for Riemann smooth manifolds to propose a constrained phase space path integral for quantization of one particle motion in a Riemannian manifold.
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10.1142/9789813143470_0011

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