Mehler kernel

The Mehler kernel is a complex-valued function found to be the propagator of the quantum harmonic oscillator.

It was first discovered by Mehler in 1866, and since then, as Einar Hille remarked in 1932, "has been rediscovered by almost everybody who has worked in this field".

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