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Functional Integration and Wave Propagation

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Functional Integration

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSB,volume 361))

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We present a pedagogical introduction, including several new results, to Kac’s path integral solution for the telegrapher equation, with emphases on: 1) wave propagation especially waveform (signal) restoration (reconstruction), designing and prediction; and 2) the underlying Poissonian random walk (essentially an asynchronous telegraph signal), especially the measure, and the connection to Brownian motion.

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  1. Department of Natural Sciences, College of Education, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, 903-01, Japan

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  1. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA

    Cecile DeWitt-Morette

  2. Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

    Pierre Cartier

  3. Université de Corse, Corte, France

    Antoine Folacci

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Foong, S.K. (1997). Functional Integration and Wave Propagation. In: DeWitt-Morette, C., Cartier, P., Folacci, A. (eds) Functional Integration. NATO ASI Series, vol 361. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0319-8_5

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