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In Chap. 1 we derived the lattice path integral for a scalar field theory using the canonical approach for the quantization of the system. Subsequently, we changed our point of view and adopted the lattice path integral itself as a method of quantization. The steps involved are a lattice discretization of the classical Euclidean action and the construction of the measure for the integration over “all configurations” of the classical fields. In this chapter we begin with the implementation of these two steps for quantum chromodynamics.
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Gattringer, C., Lang, C.B. (2010). QCD on the lattice — a first look. In: Quantum Chromodynamics on the Lattice. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 788. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01850-3_2
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