Timeline for Should [tag:feynman-integral] be a synonym of [tag:path-integral]?
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| Dec 8, 2023 at 10:05 | vote | accept | gmvh | ||
| Mar 28, 2021 at 18:07 | comment | added | gmvh | Well, pedagogical treatments of lattice field theory quite often introduce things that way (it links quite naturally with the transfer matrix formalism). But it is of course perfectly true that the functional integral formalism also works on manifolds where no such split is possible. | |
| Mar 28, 2021 at 15:46 | comment | added | Alex M. | First, nobody that I know in this area thinks about fields in the way suggested by you. Second, quantum field theory can be studied on space-times that are not necessarily products of the form "space $\times$ time". | |
| Mar 28, 2021 at 14:29 | comment | added | gmvh | But fields on $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ are also paths, viz. in the space of fields on $\mathbb{R}^n$. | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 13:09 | history | answered | Alex M. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |