Finite Dimensional Approximations to Wiener Measure and Path Integral Formulas on Manifolds

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 430-498

  Andersson, Lars ^a   Driver, Bruce K ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Path integrals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001433858     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfan.1999.3413     Document Type: Article

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