Coherent state path integrals without resolutions of unity

Authors
Citation
Jr. Klauder, Coherent state path integrals without resolutions of unity, FOUND PHYS, 31(1), 2001, pp. 57-67
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS
ISSN journal
00159018 → ACNP
Volume
31
Issue
1
Year of publication
2001
Pages
57 - 67
Database
ISI
SICI code
0015-9018(200101)31:1<57:CSPIWR>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
From the very beginning, coherent state path integrals have always relied o n a coherent state resolution of unity for their construction. By choosing an inadmissible fiducial vector, a st of "coherent states" spans the same s pace but loses its resolution of unity,and for that reason has been called a set of weak coherent states. Despite having no resolution of unity, it is nevertheless shown how the propagator in such a basis may admit a phase-sp ace path integral representation in essentially the same form as if it had a resolution of unity. Our examples are toy models of similar situations th at arise in current studies of quantum gravity.