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ErikZorkin
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I am looking for good references / clarifications on the subject.
First of all, my question is concerned only with mathematical formulation of something that sort of plays the role of the Feynman path integral of the "standard" QFT. It is not concerned with the physical or philosophical difficulties of the de Broglie-Bohm theory (I guess, there was enough discussion here already).
There was a thread somewhere here mentioning the so called de Broglie path integral. I couldn't find any good references on that. What first appears in the search are there works: 1, http://www.academia.edu/download/32269761/Bohm_Feynman_LastV.pdf, 3.
But they are not published in reputable journals and contain mathematical inconsistencies (I think, Demystifier found some errors in the first work).
Nicolic addressed some QFT, but he seems to have used the usual path integral in eq. (28).
Tumulka even claimed (without details) that the de Broglie path integral didn't solve the notorious mathematical difficulties of the Feynman integral.
So what is this de Broglie path integral precisely? Aren't all trajectories deterministic and actual in this theory so the functional integration over all virtual paths is redundant?
First of all, my question is concerned only with mathematical formulation of something that sort of plays the role of the Feynman path integral of the "standard" QFT. It is not concerned with the physical or philosophical difficulties of the de Broglie-Bohm theory (I guess, there was enough discussion here already).
There was a thread somewhere here mentioning the so called de Broglie path integral. I couldn't find any good references on that. What first appears in the search are there works: 1, http://www.academia.edu/download/32269761/Bohm_Feynman_LastV.pdf, 3.
But they are not published in reputable journals and contain mathematical inconsistencies (I think, Demystifier found some errors in the first work).
Nicolic addressed some QFT, but he seems to have used the usual path integral in eq. (28).
Tumulka even claimed (without details) that the de Broglie path integral didn't solve the notorious mathematical difficulties of the Feynman integral.
So what is this de Broglie path integral precisely? Aren't all trajectories deterministic and actual in this theory so the functional integration over all virtual paths is redundant?