p-Adic Path Integrals for Quadratic Actions.pdf

a r X i v : m a t h - p h / 0 0 0 5 0 2 6 v 1 2 6 M a y 2 0 0 0 p-ADIC PATH INTEGRALS FOR QUADRATIC ACTIONS G. S. DJORDJEVIC?? and B. DRAGOVICH Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 57, 11001 Belgrade, Yugoslavia ?Department of Physics,University of Nis?, P.O. Box 91, 18001 Nis?, Yugoslavia Abstract The Feynman path integral in p-adic quantum mechanics is considered. The prob- ability amplitude Kp(x′′, t′′; x′, t′) for one-dimensional systems with quadratic actions is calculated in an exact form, which is the same as that in ordinary quantum mechanics. 1. Introduction In the last decade years p-adic numbers have been successfully applied to many parts of theoretical and mathematical physics (for a review, see, e.g. Refs. 1-3). As is known, numerical experimental results belong to the field of rational numbers Q, and Q is dense in R and in the field of p-adic numbers Qp (p is a prime number). R and Qp, for every p, exhaust all possible number fields which can be obtained by completing Q. Any x ∈ Qp can be presented as an expansion x = pν(x0 + x1p+ x2p 2 + · · ·) , ν ∈ Z , (1.1) where xi = 0, 1, · · · , p? 1. p-Adic norm of a term xipν+i in (1.1) is | xipν+i |p= p?(ν+i). Since p-adic norm is the non-archimedean (ultrametric) one, i.e. | a + b |p≤ max{| a |p , | b |p}, it means that the canonical expansion (1.1) has | x |p= p?ν . There is no natural ordering on Qp, but one can define a linear order in the following way: x y if | x |p| y |p, or when | x |p=| y |p, there exists such index m ≥ 0 that digits satisfy x0 = y0, x1 = y1, · · · , xm?1 = ym?1, xm ym. There is an analysis over Qp connected with map ? : Qp → Qp, as well as another one related to map f : Qp → C, where C is the field of complex numbers. We use both of 1 these analysis. Derivatives4 of ?(x) are defined as in the real case, but with respect to the p-adic norm. In the case of mapping Qp → C there is well-defined integral with the Haar measure2. In particular, we use the Gauss integral2∫ Q p χp(αx 2 + β