Path Integrals in Physics Volume 1 Stochastic Process & Quantum Mechanics - M. Chaichian, A. Demichev.pdf

Path Integrals in Physics
Vo lu me I
Stochastic Processes and Quantum Mechanics
Path Integrals in Physics
Volume I
Stochastic Processes and Quantum Mechanics
M Chaichian
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki
and
Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland
and
ADemichev
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Russia
Institute of Physics Publishing
Bristol and Philadelphia

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ISBN 0 7503 0801 X (Vol. I)
0 7503 0802 8 (Vol. II)
0 7503 0713 7 (2 Vol. set)
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Fate has imposed upon our writing this
tome the yoke of a foreign tongue in
which we were not sung lullabies.
Freely adapted from Hermann Weyl
Contents
Preface ix
Introduction 1
Notational conventions 9
1 Path integ