Off-diagonal elements of the dewitt expansion from the quantum-mechanical path integral

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 4388-4396

  Dilkes, F A ^a   McKeon, D G C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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EID: 0347407740     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.53.4388     Document Type: Article

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