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Pdf rules for integrals over products of distributions. We show that the durukleinert fixed energy amplitude leads to the path integral for the propagation amplitude in the closed frw quantum cosmology with scale factor as one degree of freedom. Zlibrary is one of the largest online libraries in the world that contains over 4,960,000 books and 77,100,000 articles. Pdf on jan 1, 1995, hagen kleinert and others published path integrals in quantum mechanics, statistics and polymer physics find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate.
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Hagen kleinert born 15 june 1941 is professor of theoretical physics at the free university of berlin, germany since 1968, honorary doctor at the west university of timisoara, and at the kyrgyzrussian slavic university in bishkek. Kleinert 3 which gives a detailed discussion of path integrals and their applications in di. Rules for integrals over products of distributions from coordinate independence of path integrals article pdf available in european physical journal c 194 february 2000 with 14 reads. Read his famous textbooks on path integrals, multivalued fields, critical phenomena, defects, and quantum field theory here. Solution of further path integrals by duru kleinert method. On the durukleinert path integral in quantum cosmology. Zinnjustin has a book on path integrals in quantum mechanics. Accessible to a broad community of theoretical physicists, the book deals with systems possessing a infinite number of degrees in freedom. Ever since the development of the path integral by feynman 1 it has been challenge.
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