1. Introduction
For
, let
denote the classical Wiener space, where
is the class of all Wiener measurable subsets of
and
m is the Wiener measure. Then,
is a complete measure space. For an integrable functional
F on
, the Wiener integral of
F is denoted by
Some works and theories for the analytic Fourier–Feynman transform (FFT) on the Wiener space, initiated by Brue [
1], have been developed in the various studies. Since it became known that Wiener integrals explain the movement of particles in quantum mechanics, many studies on Wiener integrals have been published. In particular, the Fourier–Feynman transform makes it possible to better explain the behavior of particles and thus make them more predictable. In addition, research is being conducted on a new form of Fourier–Feynman transformation. The analytic FFT and its properties are similar in many respects to the ordinary Fourier transform. For an elementary introduction to the analytic FFT [
1,
2] and the references cited therein, see [
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10]. Many mathematicians have been studied the analytic FFT of various functionals on Wiener space.
One of the many topics within the theory of the analytic FFT is concerned with the classes of all polynomial functionals [
11,
12]. These classes have been used to explain certain physical phenomena. However, there are some difficulties in evaluating analytic FFT for high-order polynomial functionals as follows: let
denote the Paley–Wiener–Zygmund (PWZ) stochastic integral. For each
, let
with
. To calculate the analytic FFT of
, we have to consider following Wiener integral:
One can see that it is not easy to calculate of the Wiener integral (
1) because the Lebesgue integral
appears in the calculation of the Wiener integral (
1) whenever we apply the change of the variable theorem. In order to evaluate the Lebesgue integral (
2), we have to use the integration by parts formulas repeatedly. However it is very difficult and complicated.
In this paper, we establish a new evaluation formula to figure out these difficulties and complications. Using the evaluation formula, we obtain various examples involving the analytic FFTs very easily. Finally, we give a series approximation for the analytic FFT.
2. Definitions and Preliminaries
We first list key some definitions and preliminaries that are needed to understand this paper.
A subset B of is said to be scale-invariant measurable provided for all , and a scale-invariant measurable set N is said to be scale-invariant null provided for all . A property that holds except on a scale-invariant null set is said to be hold scale-invariant almost everywhere (s-a.e.). If two functionals F and G are equal s-a.e., we write .
For and , let denote the PWZ stochastic integral. Then, we have the following assertions.
- (i)
For each , exists for a.e. .
- (ii)
If is a function of bounded variation, equals the Riemann–Stieltjes integral for s-a.e. .
- (iii)
The has the expected linearity property.
- (iv)
The is a Gaussian random variable with mean 0 and variance .
For a more detailed study of the PWZ stochastic integral, see [
2,
6,
8,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17].
We are ready to recall the definitions of analytic Feynman integral and analytic FFT on Wiener space [
1,
2,
3].
Let
,
, and
denote the set of complex numbers, complex numbers with a positive real part, and nonzero complex numbers with a nonnegative real part, respectively. For each
,
denotes the principal square root of
, i.e.,
is always chosen to have positive real part, so that
is in
for all
. Let
F be a
-valued scale-invariant measurable functional on
such that
exists as a finite number for all
. If a function
analytic on
exists such that
for all
, then
is defined to be the analytic Wiener integral of
F over
with parameter
, and for
we write
Let
q be a nonzero real number, and let
F be a functional such that
exists for all
. If the following limit exists, we call it the analytic Feynman integral of
F with parameter
q and we write
From the fact above with some notations in [
4,
7], we state the definition of the analytic FFT.
Definition 1. For and , let We define the analytic Fourier–Feynman transform, of F, by the formulafor s-a.e. and a nonzero real number q. We note that is defined only s-a.e. We also note that if exists and if , then exists and .
The following Wiener integration formula is used several times in this paper. Let
be any complete orthonormal set of functions in
, and let
be Lebesgue measurable. Then,
in the sense that if either side of (
3) exists, both sides exist and equality holds.
We finish this section by giving the functionals on Wiener space, which are used in this paper. Let
be a complete orthonormal set in
, and let
F be a functional defined by the formula
where
and
are nonnegative integers. Then, one can see that the functionals defined in Equation (
4) are unbounded functionals used in [
11,
12].
Remark 1. Let be the set of all functionals of the formwhere h is a continuous function on . By the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, there is a sequence of polynomial functions such that as . Thus, the polynomial functionals such as Equation (
4)
are meaningful objects to study the FFT. The usefulness of the functionals (
4)
will be explained in Section 5 below. 3. An Evaluation Formula
In this section, we give an evaluation formula for the Wiener integrals. To do this, we shall start by giving two lemmas. The first lemma is the formula for the Lebesgue integral.
Lemma 1. Let s be a nonnegative integer. Then, we havewhere Γ
denotes the gamma function defined by the formulafor a complex number r with , see [15,16]. We now state some properties of the Gamma function . For any positive integer n, let , and let and set . Then,
- (i)
for all positive integers n.
- (ii)
for all positive real numbers s.
- (iii)
for all positive integers n.
In our next lemma, we establish an Wiener integration formula.
Lemma 2. Let p be a nonnegative integer, and let α be an element of with . Then, for all nonzero real numbers γ and β, we havefor , where for nonnegative integers n and k with . Proof. For
, let
. Then, using Equation (
3) for all nonzero real numbers
and
and
, we have
Using the binomial formula
Equation (
5), and some properties of the Gamma function, we have
which completes the proof of the lemma as desired. □
Using Equation (
6) in Lemma 2, we can establish the evaluation formula for the Wiener integral.
Theorem 1. Let F be as in Equation (4) above. Then, for all nonzero real numbers γ and β, we havefor . Proof. We first note that for each
, let
. Then,
’s are independent Gaussian random variables. Thus, for any Lebesgue measurable function
h on
,
’s are also independent Gaussian random variables. Then, for all nonzero real numbers
and
, and
,
Finally, using Equation (
6)
n-times repeatedly, we can establish Equation (
8) as desired. □
4. Some Formulas for the Analytic FFT via the Evaluation Formula
In this section, we give an application of our evaluation formula. Theorem 2 is one of the main results in this paper.
Theorem 2. Let F be as in Theorem 1 above, and let q be a nonzero real number. Then, the analytic FFT of F exists and is given by the formulafor s-a.e. . Proof. In Equation (
8), set
and
for
. Then, it follows that for all
and s-a.e.
, we have
From this, we observe that
of
F exists for all
. We will show that the analytic FFT
of
F exists. To do this, for
, let
Then,
for all
. Let
be any simple closed contour in
. Then, using the Cauchy theorem, we have
because the function
is an analytic function of
in
. Hence, using Morera’s theorem, we conclude that
is analytic on
. It remains to show that
However, it is an immediate consequence of the fact that the functions , are continuous and analytic on . Thus, we complete the proof of Theorem 2 as desired. □
We now give some formulas for the analytic FFT via the evaluation formula obtained by Equation (
9). We first give several formulas for the 1-dimensional functionals in
Table 1.
From now on, we next give a formula for the analytic FFT with the multi-dimensional functionals.
Example 1. Let (
set in Equation (
4))
. Then, for s-a.e. , we have Remark 2. From the definition of analytic FFT, one can observe that for ,
It can be analytically continued on , and so letting , we have It is evident from the preceding discussion that the calculating process is a challenging task. Therefore, the development of our evaluation formula holds significant value in addressing this difficulty and providing a practical solution.
We give more explicit formulas for the analytic FFT with the multi-dimensional functionals.
Example 2. Let (
set in Equation (
4))
. Then, for s-a.e. we have Example 3. Let (
set in Equation (
4))
. Then, for s-a.e. , we have Remark 3. We considered only three functionals. But, we can obtain various functionals with high dimensionals.
5. Series Approximation for the Analytic FFT
In this section, using Equation (
9) we shall establish a series approximation for the analytic FFT through several steps.
Step 1: Let
with
for all
. Then, the Maclaurin series expansion of
h is given by the formula
where
is
k-th the derivative of
h. Assume that
for all derivatives of
h (in fact, all of the processes of this development can be applied in the case that any
k-th order partial derivatives
’s have the same value when
is constant). Then, Equation (
12) can be written by
where
. Hence, we have
as
.
Step 2: For each
, let
and let
. Then, one can check that for all
,
as
because for all
, we see that
for all
. Hence, we can conclude that
tends to zero as
from the dominated convergence theorem.
Step 3: One can see that
for
, where
where
F is given by Equation (
4) above. This means that we can give the formula for analytic FFT as the series approximation by using Equation (
9) in Theorem 2.
Step 4: We can conclude that
in the sense
as
. In fact, for each
, we have
as
. The equality is obtained from the condition (
11) and the Fubini theorem for the Wiener integrals. Also, by using the uniqueness of the analytic extension and the limit, we obtain Equation (
14) as desired. Hence, the series approximation of the analytic FFT of functional
H is given by the formula
in the sense
, where
for s-a.e.
.
6. Conclusions
We finish this paper by giving
Section 6 with a remark.
Remark 4. In order to establish the series approximation with respect to the analytic FFT, we gave the condition as Equation (
11)
above. There are many functions that satisfy condition (
11)
. For example, all of the polynomial functions on , the exponential functions with , and the trigonometric function . One can see that those functions satisfy condition (
11)
. Hence, we can establish many formulas for the analytic FFT as the series approximation. Furthermore, these functionals can be used in various fields such as the finance, engineering, or date anaysis. One can easily find the FFT of the conversion for all functions that are highly applicable.