Functional Techniques in Classical Mechanics

Abstract

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.

Contribution to the conference: "Quantum Gravity and Spectral Geometry", Naples, 1-8 july 2001

References in corpus (1)

• On the "Universal" N=2 Supersymmetry of Classical Mechanics

Cited by in corpus (1)

• Field redefinition invariant Lagrange multiplier formalism