ABSTRACT

A brief introduction to path integral quantization is presented in this chapter. Physics students who are familiar with this subject and mathematics students who are not interested in physics may skip this chapter and proceed directly to the next chapter. Our presentation is sketchy and a more detailed account of this subject is found in Bailin and Love (1996), Cheng and Li (1984), Huang (1982), Das (1993), Kleinert (1990), Ramond (1989), Ryder (1986) and Swanson (1992). We closely follow Alvarez (1995), Bertlmann (1996), Das (1993), Nakahara (1998), Rabin (1995), Sakita (1985) and Swanson (1992).