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Constructing Hamiltonian quantum theories from path integrals in a diffeomorphism invariant context

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arxiv quant-ph/9904094 v2 pith:HUWVS4RT submitted 1999-04-28 quant-ph gr-qchep-th

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Osterwalder and Schrader introduced a procedure to obtain a (Lorentzian) Hamiltonian quantum theory starting from a measure on the space of (Euclidean) histories of a scalar quantum field. In this paper, we extend that construction to more general theories which do not refer to any background, space-time metric (and in which the space of histories does not admit a natural linear structure). Examples include certain gauge theories, topological field theories and relativistic gravitational theories. The treatment is self-contained in the sense that an a priori knowledge of the Osterwalder-Schrader theorem is not assumed.

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