{"title":"Time-Ordered Products and Exponentials","authors":"C. Lam","doi":"10.1201/9781003078296-27","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"I discuss a formula decomposing the integral of time-ordered products of operators into sums of products of integrals of time-ordered commutators. The resulting factorization enables summation of an infinite series to be carried out to yield an explicit formula for the time-ordered exponentials. The Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff formula and the nonabelian eikonal formula obtained previously are both special cases of this result.","PeriodicalId":409936,"journal":{"name":"Mathematical Methods of Quantum Physics","volume":"38 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mathematical Methods of Quantum Physics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003078296-27","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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I discuss a formula decomposing the integral of time-ordered products of operators into sums of products of integrals of time-ordered commutators. The resulting factorization enables summation of an infinite series to be carried out to yield an explicit formula for the time-ordered exponentials. The Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff formula and the nonabelian eikonal formula obtained previously are both special cases of this result.