A History of Feynman's Sum over Histories in Quantum Mechanics

1998/11/10 by Akira Inomata, Georg Junker
Physics and Astronomy · Mathematics · #quant-ph #hep-th #math-ph #math.MP #physics.hist-ph

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published as in R. Casalbuoni, R.Giachetti, V.Tognetti, R. Vaia, P.Verrucchi, eds. "Path Integrals from peV to TeV: 50 years after Feynman's paper", (World Scientific, Singapore, 1999) pp.19-21 · 3 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on "Path-Integrals from peV to TeV", Florence, Italy, 1998

arxiv created 1998/11/10 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

A history of Feynman's sum over histories is presented in brief. A focus is placed on the progress of path-integration techniques for exactly path-integrable problems in quantum mechanics.

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