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It is customary, nowadays, to pay homage to path integration at the beginning of a course in Quantum Physics—but later on to use only its most obvious properties. So much so that it is often said that,
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“Feynman path integrals are mathematically meaningless.”
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“We only know how to integrate gaussian path integrals.”
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“A path integral is only the solution of a parabolic partial differential equation, satisfying some initial conditions.”
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DeWitt-Morette, C. (1990). Quantum Mechanics in Curved Spacetimes Stochastic Processes on Frame Bundles. In: Audretsch, J., de Sabbata, V. (eds) Quantum Mechanics in Curved Space-Time. NATO ASI Series, vol 230. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3814-1_3
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