Path integration in non-relativistic quantum mechanics

Abstract A new method for computing path integrals explicitly is developed and applied to problems in non-relativistic quantum mechanics, such as: wave functions, propagators on configuration spaces and on phase space, caustic problems, bound states. Path integrals for paths on curved spaces and for paths on multiply-connected spaces are computed.

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