Wave Packet Analysis of Feynman Path Integrals / / by Fabio Nicola, S. Ivan Trapasso

• Autore: Nicola Fabio
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2022.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 pages)
• Disciplina: 515.43; 530.1430151543
• Soggetto topico: Quantum theory; Functional analysis; Quantum Physics; Functional Analysis
• Persona (resp. second.): TrapassoS. Ivan
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Outline -- 1 Itinerary: How Gabor Analysis Met Feynman Path Integrals -- 1.1 The Elements of Gabor Analysis -- 1.1.1 The Analysis of Functions via Gabor Wave Packets -- 1.2 The Analysis of Operators via Gabor Wave Packets -- 1.2.1 The Problem of Quantization -- 1.2.2 Metaplectic Operators -- 1.3 The Problem of Feynman Path Integrals -- 1.3.1 Rigorous Time-Slicing Approximation of Feynman Path Integrals -- 1.3.2 Pointwise Convergence at the Level of Integral Kernels for Feynman-Trotter Parametrices -- 1.3.3 Convergence of Time-Slicing Approximations in L(L2) for Low-Regular Potentials -- 1.3.4 Convergence of Time-Slicing Approximations in the Lp Setting -- Part I Elements of Gabor Analysis -- 2 Basic Facts of Classical Analysis -- 2.1 General Notation -- 2.2 Function Spaces -- 2.2.1 Lebesgue Spaces -- 2.2.2 Differentiable Functions and Distributions -- 2.3 Basic Operations on Functions and Distributions -- 2.4 The Fourier Transform -- 2.4.1 Convolution and Fourier Multipliers -- 2.5 Some More Facts and Notations -- 3 The Gabor Analysis of Functions -- 3.1 Time-Frequency Representations -- 3.1.1 The Short-Time Fourier Transform -- 3.1.2 Quadratic Representations -- 3.2 Modulation Spaces -- 3.3 Wiener Amalgam Spaces -- 3.4 A Banach-Gelfand Triple of Modulation Spaces -- 3.5 The Sjöstrand Class and Related Spaces -- 3.6 Complements -- 3.6.1 Weight Functions -- 3.6.2 The Cohen Class of Time-Frequency Representations -- 3.6.3 Kato-Sobolev Spaces -- 3.6.4 Fourier Multipliers -- 3.6.5 More on the Sjöstrand Class -- 3.6.6 Boundedness of Time-Frequency Transforms on Modulation Spaces -- 3.6.7 Gabor Frames -- 4 The Gabor Analysis of Operators -- 4.1 The General Program -- 4.2 The Weyl Quantization -- 4.3 Metaplectic Operators -- 4.3.1 Notable Facts on Symplectic Matrices. ; 4.3.2 Metaplectic Operators: Definitions and Basic Properties -- 4.3.3 The Schrödinger Equation with Quadratic Hamiltonian -- 4.3.4 Symplectic Covariance of the Weyl Calculus -- 4.3.5 Gabor Matrix of Metaplectic Operators -- 4.4 Fourier and Oscillatory Integral Operators -- 4.4.1 Canonical Transformations and the Associated Operators -- 4.4.2 Generalized Metaplectic Operators -- 4.4.3 Oscillatory Integral Operators with Rough Amplitude -- 4.5 Complements -- 4.5.1 Weyl Operators and Narrow Convergence -- 4.5.2 General Quantization Rules -- 4.5.3 The Class FIO'(S,vs) -- 4.5.4 Finer Aspects of Gabor Wave Packet Analysis -- 5 Semiclassical Gabor Analysis -- 5.1 Semiclassical Transforms and Function Spaces -- 5.1.1 Sobolev Spaces and Embeddings -- 5.2 Semiclassical Quantization, Metaplectic Operators and FIOs -- Part II Analysis of Feynman Path Integrals -- 6 Pointwise Convergence of the Integral Kernels -- 6.1 Summary -- 6.2 Preliminary Results -- 6.2.1 The Schwartz Kernel Theorem -- 6.2.2 Uniform Estimates for Linear Changes of Variable -- 6.2.3 Exponentiation in Banach Algebras -- 6.2.4 Two Technical Lemmas -- 6.3 Reduction to the Case .12em.1emdotteddotteddotted.76dotted.6h=(2π)-1 -- 6.4 The Fundamental Solution and the Trotter Formula -- 6.5 Potentials in M∞0,s -- 6.6 Potentials in C∞b -- 6.7 Potentials in the Sjöstrand Class M∞,1 -- 6.8 Convergence at Exceptional Times -- 6.9 Physics at Exceptional Times -- 7 Convergence in L(L2) for Potentials in the Sjöstrand Class -- 7.1 Summary -- 7.2 An Abstract Approximation Result in L(L2) -- 7.3 Short-Time Analysis of the Action -- 7.4 Estimates for the Parametrix and Convergence Results -- 8 Convergence in L(L2) for Potentials in Kato-Sobolev Spaces -- 8.1 Summary -- 8.2 Sobolev Regularity of the Hamiltonian Flow -- 8.3 Sobolev Regularity of the Classical Action. ; 8.4 Analysis of the Parametrices and Convergence Results -- 8.5 Higher-Order Parametrices -- 9 Convergence in the Lp Setting -- 9.1 Summary -- 9.2 Review of the Short Time Analysis in the Smooth Category -- 9.3 Wave Packet Analysis of the Schrödinger Flow -- 9.4 Convergence in Lp with Loss of Derivatives -- 9.5 The Case of Magnetic Fields -- 9.6 Sharpness of the Results -- 9.7 Extensions to the Case of Rough Potentials -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The purpose of this monograph is to offer an accessible and essentially self-contained presentation of some mathematical aspects of the Feynman path integral in non-relativistic quantum mechanics. In spite of the primary role in the advancement of modern theoretical physics and the wide range of applications, path integrals are still a source of challenging problem for mathematicians. From this viewpoint, path integrals can be roughly described in terms of approximation formulas for an operator (usually the propagator of a Schrödinger-type evolution equation) involving a suitably designed sequence of operators. In keeping with the spirit of harmonic analysis, the guiding theme of the book is to illustrate how the powerful techniques of time-frequency analysis - based on the decomposition of functions and operators in terms of the so-called Gabor wave packets – can be successfully applied to mathematical path integrals, leading to remarkable results and paving the wayto a fruitful interaction. This monograph intends to build a bridge between the communities of people working in time-frequency analysis and mathematical/theoretical physics, and to provide an exposition of the present novel approach along with its basic toolkit. Having in mind a researcher or a Ph.D. student as reader, we collected in Part I the necessary background, in the most suitable form for our purposes, following a smooth pedagogical pattern. Then Part II covers the analysis of path integrals, reflecting the topics addressed in the research activity of the authors in the last years.
• Titolo autorizzato: Wave packet analysis of Feynman path integrals
• ISBN: 3-031-06186-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910585774903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, . 1617-9692 ; ; 2305