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Extended feynman formula for forced harmonic oscillator

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Horváthy's modification of Feynman's original method is generalized to the path integral formula of a forced harmonic oscillator. With this new formula the propagator of a harmonic oscillator with memory is evaluated exactly beyond and at caustics.

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  1. Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19.081, 80.000, Curitiba, Brazil

    Bin Kang Cheng

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Work supported in part by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnólogico (CNPq), Brazil.

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Cheng, B.K. Extended feynman formula for forced harmonic oscillator. Int J Theor Phys 23, 1099–1104 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02213422

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