Mehler formula for Hermite functions

ID: mehler-formula-for-hermite-functions

For , this identity sums the Hermite function expansion into a Gaussian. One proof takes the Bargmann-Fock space inner product of the generating functions at . Writing , the two resulting real Gaussian integrals have quadratic coefficients and and linear coefficients and . Evaluation gives the formula. Setting and multiplying by gives the harmonic oscillator transition kernel of .

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