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A note on summation over Feynman histories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

C. W. Kilmister
C. W. Kilmister
Affiliation:
King's College, London
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Abstract

It is pointed out that the free particle, the harmonic oscillator and certain other systems are such that the Feynman summation over histories is independent of the class of histories summed over. These examples are therefore useless as tests of methods of defining and carrying out the summation.

Type
Research Notes
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , April 1958 , pp. 302 - 304
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1958

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