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We present an embedding of stochastic optimal control problems, of the so called path integral form, into reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Using consistent, sample based estimates of the embedding leads to a model free, non-parametric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-08-14 Konrad Rawlik , Marc Toussaint , Sethu Vijayakumar

Path integration is a respected form of quantization that all theoretical quantum physicists should welcome. This elaboration begins with simple examples of three different versions of path integration. After an important clarification of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-10 John R. Klauder

We consider a reduction procedure in Wiener-type path integral for a finite-dimensional mechanical system with a symmetry representing the motion of two interacting scalar particles on a manifold that is the product of the total space of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 S. N. Storchak

The applicability of the space-time formulation of the gluonic sector of QCD in terms of the Polyakov worldline path integral, via the use of the background field gauge fixing method, is extended to multi-gluon loop configurations. Relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. I. Karanikas , C. N. Ktorides

We give two novel proofs that the path integral and stochastic quantizations of generic scalar Euclidean quantum field theories are equivalent. Our proofs rely on Taylor interpolations indexed by forests, in the fashion of constructive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Dario Benedetti , Ilya Chevyrev , Razvan Gurau

We provide a worldline representation of the one-loop effective action for a Dirac particle coupled to external scalar, pseudoscalar, vector and axialvector fields. Extending previous work by two of the authors on the pure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-01 F. Bastianelli , O. Corradini , J. P. Edwards , D. G. C. McKeon , C. Schubert

In this lecture a short introduction is given into the theory of the Feynman path integral in quantum mechanics. The general formulation in Riemann spaces will be given based on the Weyl- ordering prescription, respectively product ordering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Grosche

In this paper, a complete covariant quantization of generalized electrodynamics is shown through the path integral approach. To this goal, we first studied the hamiltonian structure of system following Dirac's methodology and, then, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-18 Rodrigo Bufalo , Bruto Max Pimentel , German Enrique Ramos Zambrano

The Feynman path integral has revolutionized modern approaches to quantum physics. Although the path integral formalism has proven very successful and spawned several approximation schemes, the direct evaluation of real-time path integrals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Job Feldbrugge , Joshua Y. L. Jones

The Feynman path integral approach to quantum mechanics is examined in the case where the configuration space is curved. It is shown how the ambiguity that is present in the choice of path integral measure may be resolved if, in addition to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 David J. Toms

We have developed a proper path integral formalism consistent with the deformed version of the quantum mechanics which contains a maximum observable length scale at the order of the Cosmological particle horizon, existing in cosmology.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Souvik Pramanik

A natural mapping of paths in a curved space onto the paths in the corresponding (tangent) flat space may be used to reduce the curved-space-time path integral to the flat-space-time path integral. The dynamics of the particle in a curved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Michael B. Mensky

We show that the Duru-Kleinert fixed energy amplitude leads to the path integral for the propagation amplitude in the closed FRW quantum cosmology with scale factor as one degree of freedom. Then, using the Duru-Kleinert equivalence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. A. Jafarizadeh , F. Darabi , A. R. Rastegar

Scalar field systems containing higher derivatives are studied and quantized by Hamiltonian path integral formalism. A new point to previous quantization methods is that field functions and their derivatives with time are considered as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-01-17 Nguyen Duc Minh

Higher order coefficients of the inverse mass expansion of one-loop effective actions are obtained from a one-dimensional path integral representation. For the case of a massive scalar loop in the background of both a scalar potential and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Fliegner , P. Haberl , M. G. Schmidt , C. Schubert

In this paper we develop a quantization method for flat compact manifolds based on path integrals. In this method the Hilbert space of holomorphic functions in the complexification of the manifold is used. This space is a reproducing kernel…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Guillermo Capobianco , Walter Reartes

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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 Shyamoli Chaudhuri

The gravitational path integral suggests a striking result: the Hilbert space of closed universes in each superselection sector, a so-called $\alpha$-sector, is one-dimensional. We develop an abstract formalism encapsulating recent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-04 Hong Zhe Chen

As argued previously, amplitudes of quantum field theories on noncommutative space and time cannot be computed using naive path integral Feynman rules. One of the proposals is to use the Gell-Mann--Low formula with time-ordering applied…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-07 H. Bozkaya , P. Fischer , H. Grosse , M. Pitschmann , V. Putz , M. Schweda , R. Wulkenhaar

We elucidate physical aspects of path signatures by formulating randomised path developments within the framework of matrix models in quantum field theory. Using tools from physics, we introduce a new family of randomised path developments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Samuel Crew , Cristopher Salvi , William F. Turner , Thomas Cass , Antoine Jacquier