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Two cases of forced harmonic oscillators with time dependent mass for which exact propagators can be evaluated are presented. From the exact propagators, normalized solutions of the corresponding Schrödinger equations are arrived at. Time-dependent invariants are also found.
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Sabir, M., Rajagopalan, S. Path integral analysis of harmonic oscillators with time-dependent mass. Pramana - J Phys 37, 253–260 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02847479
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02847479