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Applications of the Feynman Calculus

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This chapter is devoted to a few applications of the Feynman operator calculus. We first consider the theory of linear evolution equations and provide a unified approach to a class of time-dependent parabolic and hyperbolic equations.

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Gill, T.L., Zachary, W. (2016). Applications of the Feynman Calculus. In: Functional Analysis and the Feynman Operator Calculus. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27595-6_8

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