1. Path integral over reparametrizations: Lévy flights versus random walks
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Buividovich, Pavel and Makeenko, Yuri
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PATH integrals , *PARAMETER estimation , *LEVY processes , *RANDOM walks , *QUANTUM chromodynamics , *SCATTERING (Physics) , *STOCHASTIC processes , *NUMERICAL calculations - Abstract
Abstract: We investigate the properties of the path integral over reparametrizations (or the boundary value of the Liouville field in string theory). Discretizing the path integral, we apply the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm to numerical simulations of a proper (subordinator) stochastic process and find that typical trajectories are not Brownian but rather have discontinuities of the type of Lévy''s flights. We study a fractal structure of these trajectories and show that their Hausdorff dimension is zero. We confirm thereby previous results on QCD scattering amplitudes by analytical and numerical calculations. We also perform Monte Carlo simulations of the path integral over reparametrization in the effective string ansatz for a circular Wilson loop and discuss their subtleties associated with the discretization of Douglas'' functional. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2010
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