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23. Real effects from imaginary time

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Some of the curious effects in quantum theory and statistical mechanics can be interpreted by analytically continuing the time coordinate to purely inaginary values. We explore some of these issues in this instalment.

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  1. IUCAA, Post Bag 4, Pune, India

    T. Padmanabhan

  2. University Campus, Ganeshkhind, Pune, 411 007, India

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T Padmanabhan works at IUCAA, Pune and is interested in all areas of theoretical physics, especially those which have something to do with gravity.

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Padmanabhan, T. Snippets of physics. Reson 14, 1060–1070 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-009-0101-x

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