Does QM Use n-Dimensional or Infinite Dimensional Integrals?

  • Context: High School 
  • Thread starter Thread starter benorin
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Infinite Integrals Qm
Join the discussion
Ask a follow-up here, or get your own question answered by working scientists, mathematicians and engineers — people, not an autocomplete.
Real named experts · corrections over time · the nuance an AI answer skips
1 reply · 968 views
Messages
1,442
Reaction score
191
Much as the title of this thread asks: does quantum mechanics use n-dimensional or infinite dimensional integrals? I'm merely curious as I studied the n-dimensional case as a hobby and wondered if I'd ever get to use it for anything cool like QM. If so, please maybe post one such integral so I can play with it. Thanks.
 
Physics news on Phys.org
It uses both. The Feynman path integral is always infinite-dimensional, but the integrals defining inner products are (for systems with finitely many particles only) always finite-dimensional.
 
Last edited: