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Existence of positive representations for complex weights

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2008-11-26 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The necessity of computing integrals with complex weights over manifolds with a large number of dimensions, e.g., in some field theoretical settings, poses a problem for the use of Monte Carlo techniques. Here it is shown that very general complex weight functions P(x) on R^d can be represented by real and positive weights p(z) on C^d, in the sense that for any observable f, <f(x)>_P = <f(z)>_p, f(z) being the analytical extension of f(x). The construction is extended to arbitrary compact Lie groups.

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@article{arxiv.0706.4359,
  title  = {Existence of positive representations for complex weights},
  author = {L. L. Salcedo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.4359},
  year   = {2008}
}
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