Field Theoretic Functional Calculus for the Anharmonic Oscillator in Low Approximations

Abstract

The theory of solution for quantum field functional equations as developped in II and III for a suitable test problem of quantum mechanics is investigated in low approximations. In Sect. 1 the functional formulation of the anharmonic oscillator is once more given and in Sect. 2 general translational equivalent functional equations. The expansion of the physical state functional into series of unsymmetrical and symmetrical base functionals and the representation of the functional equations for such expansions are discussed in Sect. 3. In the next Sect. 4 the unsymmetrical DYSON representation is investigated and the explicit representation of the smeared out functional equation by an infinite system of equations is derived. Then in Sect. 5 and 6 the system of equations is truncated for N = 3 and the corresponding eigenvalue equation is considered. The same is done in Sect. 7 and 8 for the HERWITTE representation. In the following Sect. 9 the original functional equation in a not smeared out form is treated in the DYSON representation and the corresponding system of unsymmetrized equations is given. Furthermore in Sect. 10 the N = 3 approximation together with other possibilities is investigated again. Finally the numerical results of our calculations for eigenvalues are stated and discussed. In the appendices technical details are derived.