Segal–Bargmann space

In mathematics, the Segal–Bargmann space (for Irving Segal and Valentine Bargmann), also known as the Bargmann space or Bargmann–Fock space, is the space of holomorphic functions F in n complex variables satisfying the square-integrability condition:

${\displaystyle \|F\|^{2}:=\pi ^{-n}\int _{\mathbb {C} ^{n}}|F(z)|^{2}\exp(-|z|^{2})\,dz<\infty ,}$

where here dz denotes the 2n-dimensional Lebesgue measure on ${\displaystyle \mathbb {C} ^{n}.}$ It is a Hilbert space with respect to the associated inner product:

${\displaystyle \langle F\mid G\rangle =\pi ^{-n}\int _{\mathbb {C} ^{n}}{\overline {F(z)}}G(z)\exp(-|z|^{2})\,dz.}$

The space was introduced in the mathematical physics literature separately by Bargmann and Segal in the early 1960s; see Bargmann (1961) and Segal (1963). Basic information about the material in this section may be found in Folland (1989) and Hall (2000) . Segal worked from the beginning in the infinite-dimensional setting; see Baez, Segal & Zhou (1992) and Section 10 of Hall (2000) for more information on this aspect of the subject.