Path integrals on a manifold that is a product of the total space of the principal fiber bundle and the vector space

S. N. Storchak

Published 2019-12-31Version 1

Using the path integral measure factorization method based on the nonlinear filtering equation from the stochastic process theory, we consider the reduction procedure in Wiener path integrals for a mechanical system with symmetry that describes the motion of two interacting scalar particles on a special smooth compact Riemannian manifold - the product of total space of the principal fiber bundle and the vector space. The original manifold, the configuration space of this system, is endowed with an isometric free proper action of a compact semisimple unimodular Lie group. The proposed reduction procedure leads to the integral relation between path integrals that represent fundamental solutions of the inverse Kolmogorov equations on the initial and reduced manifolds. For the case of reduction onto the zero-momentum level, the reduction Jacobian is obtained, which is an additional potential term to the Hamiltonian.