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Wick rotation and spinors

I am quite familiar with use of Wick rotations in QFT, but one thing annoys me: let's say we perform it for treating more conveniently (ie. making converge) a functional integral containing spinors; ...
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Intuition behind the notion of reflection positivity

I came across Yuji's question. I'm finding it difficult to parse the meaning behind what's said on Wikipedia. Could someone give an explanation of the concept involved? I would also appreciate ...
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Is Wick rotation invariant under proper conformal transformations?

Is Wick rotation invariant under proper conformal transformations? Why or why not? Does Wick rotation apply to conformal field theories? $(1-i\epsilon )T$ is not invariant under proper conformal ...
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Wick rotation for FRW in quantum gravity

There is no timelike Killing vector for FRW cosmologies. In the path integral formalism, is it possible to Wick rotate for quantum cosmology in quantum gravity? If yes, how? If no, how does one work ...