Imaginary Time and Path Integrals?

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LarryS

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Oct 20, 2009

Steven Hawking writes in A Brief History of Time that time itself must sometimes have an imaginary component in order for Feynman's Sum-Over-Histories approach to work. Why, in a nutshell, is this so? Thanks in advance.

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Avodyne

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Oct 20, 2009

Convergence of the integral.

PRB147

Oct 25, 2009

It is wick rotation, please google "wick rotation",
you also can find wick rotation in Wiki

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