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Complex Analysis/Path of Integration

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Smooth paths and path subdivision

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The following definitions were abbreviated with acronyms and are used as justifications for transformations or conclusions in proofs.

  • (WG1) Definition (Smooth path): A path is smooth if it is continuously differentiable.
  • (UT) Definition (Subdivision): Let be an interval, and . is called a subdivision of .
  • (WG2) Definition (Path subdivision): Let be a path in , , a subdivision of , for all a path in . is called a path subdivision of if and for all and we have .
  • (WG3) Definition (Piecewise smooth path): A path is piecewise smooth if there exists a path subdivision of consisting of smooth paths for all .

Integration path

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  • (WG4) Definition (Path integral): Let be a continuous function and a smooth path, then the path integral is defined as: . If is only piecewise smooth with respect to a path subdivision , then we define .
  • Definition (Integration path): An integration path is a piecewise smooth (piecewise continuously differentiable) path.

Example

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Integration path on the triangle edge

The following path is piecewise continuously differentiable (smooth) and for the vertices the closed triangle path is not differentiable. The triangle path is defined on the interval as follows:

Paths from convex combinations

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The piecewise continuously differentiable path is formed from convex combination.The sub-paths

  • with
  • with
  • with

are continuously differentiable.

See also

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