Friday, December 12, 2014

hamiltonian formalism - Are powers of the harmonic oscillator semiclassically exact?


The Duistermaat-Heckman theorem, although too complex for me to completely grasp, states that under some conditions, the partition function for a special class of Hamiltonians is semiclassically exact. The harmonic oscillator is exact and should be an element of this class - the problem is that I don't completely understand the theorem, therefore can't generalize it.


I would like to know if, for systems of the form


$$ H(q,p) = \left( \frac{q^2+p^2}{2} \right)^\gamma \, , \quad \gamma \in \mathbb{N} \, ,$$


the partition function is semiclassically exact, and if this exactness implies that the semiclassical propagator is also exact.




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