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Partition Function for the Harmonic Oscillator

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We start by making the following changes from Minkowski real time t = x 0 to Euclidean “time” τ = t E:

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  1. Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Walter Dittrich

  2. Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Martin Reuter

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Dittrich, W., Reuter, M. (2017). Partition Function for the Harmonic Oscillator. In: Classical and Quantum Dynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58298-6_26

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