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arxiv: 1201.5115 · v2 · pith:EA557RHYnew · submitted 2012-01-24 · ✦ hep-th · math-ph· math.MP· quant-ph

Path Integral Junctions

classification ✦ hep-th math-phmath.MPquant-ph
keywords integralpathfactorsgivenhamiltonianweightboundarybulk
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We propose path integral description for quantum mechanical systems on compact graphs consisting of N segments of the same length. Provided the bulk Hamiltonian is segment-independent, scale-invariant boundary conditions given by self-adjoint extension of a Hamiltonian operator turn out to be in one-to-one correspondence with N \times N matrix-valued weight factors on the path integral side. We show that these weight factors are given by N-dimensional unitary representations of the infinite dihedral group.

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