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Many perturbative QFTs suffer from the lack of a rigorous definition of a "good enough" measure over the space of paths (or fields) $P$,

$$\mathcal{Z} = \int_{{x \in P}} e^{iS(x)} Dx$$

There are many ways to "fix" this. For example, if the gauge group $G$ is big and good enough, one could instead work with the (hopefully finite dimensional) quotient space $P/G$. However this does not work for all cases. I'm wondering if there are approaches that work for suitable subspace $P' \subset P$?

For example, instead of working with all continuous paths, work with piecewise linear paths or paths in Schwartz space (smooth and tamed).

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  • $\begingroup$ Well, a lattice field theory (which is perfectly rigorous, at least in finite volume) can be understood as being formulated in terms of piecewise linear paths, so I suppose the answer is "yes" as posed ... although I wonder if that's what you had in mind. $\endgroup$
    – gmvh
    Commented Nov 20, 2023 at 14:34

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