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We develop a mathematically well-defined path integral formalism for general symplectic manifolds. We argue that in order to make a path integral quantization covariant under general coordinate transformations on the phase space and involve…

The method of the factorization of the path integral measure, based on a nonlinear filtering equation, is extended to the case of a nonfree isometric action of the compact semisimple unimodular Lie group on a smooth compact Riemannian…

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(1) For a compact Riemannian manifold without boundary $(M,g)$ containing $n+1$ points $p_i$ and the $n$-dimensional standard simplex $\Delta$, the miniser of \[ E: M \times \Delta \to {\mathbf R}, (a,\lambda) \mapsto \lambda^0 d^2(a,p_0) +…