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Why path integral approach may suffer from operator ordering problem?
In Assa Auerbach's book (Ref. 1), he gave an argument saying that in the normal process of path integral, we lose information about ordering of operators by ignoring the discontinuous path.
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Do derivatives anticommute with Grassmann variables and complex numbers in a many-body path integral?
I'm trying to learn how to do a many-body path integral for both fermions and bosons, and I'm stuck. I'm following Altland and Simons - Condensed Matter Field Theory, chapter 4. On page 167, equation ...
