Re: Path integrals and statistical mechanics

2003-06-23 Thread George Levy
Hi Doriano, Welcome to the list. You raise an interesting problem and. I don't know the answer to your question. However, I just want to point out that an observer in relative motion observes the rotation in the complex plane of space-time geodesics. Could there be a connection between

Re: Path integrals and statistical mechanics

2003-06-23 Thread Joao Leao
The so-called Wick rotation which is often employed to turn the unruly measure of path integrals into a regular summable measure and is represented as t --- -it has no direct relation with the so-called Weyl unitarity trick which is used to turn the bilinear anti-symmetric non-positive definite

Path integrals and statistical mechanics

2003-06-20 Thread Doriano Brogioli
Hi to everybody. I subscribed to this mailing list yesterday, but I'd like to pose a question since I think it _must_ be the right place. Quantum mechanics can be formulated in terms of path integrals (Feinmann integrals). By substituting the time t with an (Euclidean) immaginary time i s,