Joint Math/CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar

Speaker: Dan Freed

Title: Path integral quantization of particles via probability

Abstract: This is the beginning of our study of Sourav Chatterjee’s Gauge Theory Lecture Notes, a book-in-progress.  This lecture follows Chapter 1, which covers the path integral quantization of a single particle.  We begin in real time with the free particle and then move on to the Wick rotated version with a potential.  The idea is to introduce probabilistic methods in this construction.