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arXiv:hep-th/9812178

Background-Quantum Split Symmetry and Phase-Space Path-Integrals

M. Reuter

Published Dec 20, 1998• 0 citations
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Abstract

Phase-space path-integrals are used in order to illustrate various aspects of a recently proposed interpretation of quantum mechanics as a gauge theory of metaplectic spinor fields.
DOI
10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9812178

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