Published January 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Functional techniques in classical mechanics

Creators

Description

In 1931 Koopman and von Neumann extended previous work of Liouville and provided an operatorial version of Classical Mechanics (CM). In this talk we will review a path-integral formulation of this operatorial version of CM. In particular we will study the geometrical nature of the many auxiliary variables present and of the unexpected universal symmetries generated by the functional technique

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PII
S0920563201016243;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
104
Journal Issue
1-3
Journal Page Range
p. 243-246
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE7

Conference

Title
International meeting on quantum gravity and spectral geometry
Dates
2-7 Jul 2001
Place
Naples (Italy)

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
34048496
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
AUXILIARY SYSTEMS; CLASSICAL MECHANICS; FUNCTIONAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; SYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
MECHANICS

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Copyright (c) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.