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Fermionic Gaussians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

P. L. Robinson
P. L. Robinson
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Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL32611, U.S.A.
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The notion of a Gaussian as the exponential of a quadratic is rather familiar. Such functions are of considerable importance in a number of contexts, for example within quantum theory. Thus, in the Schrödinger representation of the canonical commutation relations they alone minimize uncertainty and they appear as ground states for harmonic oscillators. Also in the complex-wave representation of a free boson field they arise as transforms of the Fock vacuum under certain Bogoliubov automorphisms.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 118 , Issue 3 , November 1995 , pp. 543 - 554
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1995

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