Nomenclature : global or constant phase

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Is the phase factor in : ##e^{i\phi}\Psi(x)## a constant or a global phase factor called ?
 
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Indeed I hesitated to put it in the math section.

Or : does it happen to have something like : ##e^{i\int K(\Psi(s),s)ds}\Psi(x)## ?

So that the phase on a function of all the points, or the shape of the wavefunction ?

But anyhow I would think it's unhandlable and very heavy mathematically.
 
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