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Ken Wharton
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Thanks — I need to run right now, but I’ll respond in more detail later.

Do keep in mind that you may not want to exactly extremize the action in all cases — that way leads classical theory. In the path integral, non-extremized action histories are also important.

Cheers! -Ken

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