Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1843930 Nuclear Physics B 2010 18 Pages PDF
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.
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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Mathematical Physics
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