What is analytic continuation and how is it used in QFT?

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What is analytic continuation? Seems to be used often in QFT.
 
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Actually, it more mathematics than physics- If a function is analytic on an open subset of the complex numbers, then there is a unique way to define it outside that set in such a way that it is analytic for all complex numbers.
 

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