The Feynman integral for time-dependent anharmonic oscillators

Journal of Mathematical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 3278-3299

  Grothaus, Martin ^a   Khandekar, Dinkar C ^b   Da Silva, José L ^c   Streit, Ludwig ^a,c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

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EID: 0031516647     PISSN: 00222488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.532045     Document Type: Article

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