Pitfalls of path integrals: Amplitudes for spacetime regions and the quantum Zeno effect

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Halliwell, J J ^a   Yearsley, J M ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84863838399     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.024016     Document Type: Article

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