QED Revisited: Proving Equivalence Between Path Integral and Stochastic Quantization
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We perform the stochastic quantization of scalar QED based on a generalization of the stochastic gauge fixing scheme and its geometric interpretation. It is shown that the stochastic quantization scheme exactly agrees with the usual path integral formulation. *) Email: [email protected]
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تاریخ انتشار 2004